In re Gregory

Appellants filed in the United States Patent Office a reissue application for a patent on certain alleged new and useful improvements in electromotors.

Twelve claims were allowed and five rejected by the examiner.. Upon appeal the Board of Appeals affirmed the decision of the examiner with respect to claims 19 and 20, holding these claims to be unpat-entable in view of the prior art, and from the decision of the board this, appeal was taken.

The rejected claims read as follows:

19. In an animated advertising device, the combination of a rotatable shaft, a display arm fixed to said shaft, and…