Keefe v. Watson

JACKSON, District Judge.*

This is a civil action brought by plainr tiffs, pursuant to Title 35 U.S.C. § 145, to authorize defendant to re-issue to plaintiffs the Keefe patent No. 2,563,787 to include claims 13 to 18 which were rejected by the Patent Office as being unpatentable over a Wingfoot (Australia) patent No. 122,731, that patent in view of the Killen (Great Britain) patent No. 329,955, and the patent of McMahan No. 2,331,795. Claims 1 to 5, inclusive, were allowed.

Claim 13 is representative of the claims in issue, and reads as follows:

“13. A tire of the character described, adapted to…