Legal Opinion
In re Barratt's Appeal
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 9, 1899No. 114PublishedCited by 13 opinions
Hearing on an appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents rejecting an application for a patent. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
On February 28, 1896, the present applicant, William T. Barratt, filed an application in the Patent Office for letters patent for a certain alleged invention claimed to have been made by him in needle cylinders for knitting machines. *256His claims were rejected by each, and all the tribunals of the Patent Office, and upon appeal by Barratt to this court the decision of the Commissioner of Patents adverse to the applicant was affirmed. In its opinion in the case this court said:
“There is no broad line of demarcation between the exercise of mechanical ingenuity and that of the inventive faculty,…
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