In re Blair

Appellants have here appealed from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office which affirmed the action of the Primary Examiner in rejecting claims 11 and 45 to 50, inclusive, of their application for a patent on an apparatus for making sponge rubber articles.

While the claims of appellants’ application, under the “Dual Prosecution” procedure instituted by notices in the Patent Office (see Wol-cott, Manual of Patent Office Procedure, Ninth Edition, 1947, p. 52), were examined and passed upon by three examiners, the rejected claims above enumerated were passed upon…