In re Hofmann

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting all of the claims — 19 to 26, inclusive — in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to improvements in pharmaceutical containers for poisonous substances.

Claims 19, 20, and 21 are illustrative. They read:

19. In a container for pharmaceutical preparations having a base, an indicating •outer bounding surface upstanding vertically from tbe base, any vertical cross .section of which bounding surface is substantially…