Application of Francis J. Hassler

In my opinion, the publication in the Raleigh News and Observer on November 10, 1958, more than one year prior to appellant’s filing date, is an enabling disclosure which so described the invention here claimed that one of ordinary skill in the tobacco flue-curing art can be said to have had possession of the invention at that time. The additional references cited are at best evidence of what one of ordinary skill in this art would be expected to know.

In Cohn v. United States Corset Co., 93 U.S. 366, 377, 23 L.Ed. 907 (1876), the Court stated the guiding principle which I think is applicable…