In re Bourdon

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office sustaining the action of the Primary Examiner in finally rejecting claims 4 to 7, inclusive, of appellant’s application for a patent on a pneumatic tire, on the ground of lack of invention over the prior art. Claims 4 and 5 are typical of the appealed claims and read:

4. A tire casing comprising a carcass having flexible thread-reinforced side walls, a ground contacting tread portion on the outer periphery o£ said carcass, two superposed, directly adjacent, substantially coextensive layers within and…