Application of Warren

JOHNSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the action of the Primary Examiner on the single claim in appellant’s application for a design patent on a “Double Swivel Fitting.”

The appealed application, serial No. D-136,796, is one of a group of copending applications filed by appellant for design patents on various types of multiple pipe fittings. The Primary Examiner held the designs individually patentable but not patentably distinct from each other, and required appellant to elect the application he preferred to…