Legal Opinion
In re Felton
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided September 20, 1973No. Patent Appeal No. 8973PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALMOND, Senior Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals sustaining the examiner’s rejection of claims 5 and 8-10 of appellant’s application 1 entitled “Dropper and Stirrer Dispensing A Single Drop.” We reverse.
Invention
Appellant’s invention is depicted in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings:
The invention is described in the specification as follows:
In particular, the one-piece article [10] is formed from a tube of resilient, essentially unplasticized, plastic material having hydrophobic properties and being inert to blood or other liquid to be dispensed…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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3Cited by17 opinions
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