Legal Opinion
Application of Hans Theodor Boe
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided February 17, 1966No. Patent Appeal 7535PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge.
The Board of Appeals affirmed the examiner’s rejection of claims 9, 11 and 12 of appellant’s application for patent Serial No. 845,743, filed August 12, 1959, for “Highly Porous And Absorptive Non-Woven Fabrics And Method of Making Same.”
The appealed claims are directed to a method of manufacturing highly porous absorptive non-woven materials in the nature of chamois leather. Such materials have good water retention as well as absorptive properties. As pointed out in the specification:
If these non-woven fabrics are being used as chamois leather they must not only be characterized…
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