Legal Opinion
Application of Gibbons
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided February 3, 1954No. Patent Appeal 6005PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’CONNELL, Judge.
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 rejecting claims 1, 3, and 5 in appellant’s application for a patent on an alleged improvement in the method of balancing photographic light. No: claims were allowed.
Claim 5 is illustrative and sufficiently descriptive of the involved subject matter. It reads as follows:
“5. The method of equally exposing a photographic emulsion of any type to an action scene, one portion of which is outdoors and illuminated with one light intensity,…
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