In re McCoy

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, affirming that of the examiner rejecting all the claims of an application for the reissue of patent No. 2,168,651, issued August 8, 1939, relating to a method of packaging articles in transparent wrapping films. The application for reissue was filed August 2,1940, a few days less than one year after the original patent was issued. It does not embrace any of the eight claims of the original patent (all of which were method claims), but presents 13 method claims numbered 1 to 8, inclusive,…