Application of James G. Balmer, Jr

SMITH, Judge.

The present appeal involves the patentability of a design for a pneumatic tire. The single claim stands rejected as covering an “obvious” adaptation of a pneumatic tire design shown in an advertisement for “Fiske” tires which appeared in the publication “Tires’ Service Station” Vol. 33, page 16 (June 1952).

The ornamental design for which patent protection is here sought is that of a pneumatic tire having a narrow white zone on the sidewall, adjacent the bead of the tire, and a series of equally spaced grooves formed in the sidewall concentric with said white zone and extending…