Smith & Co. v. United States
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Appeal from Board of United States General Appraisers, Abstract 40693. [Oral argument Oct. 11, 1917, by Mr. Levett and Mr. Lawrence.]
1Dissent
DISSENTING OPINION.
De Vries, Judge:
I am unable to concur in the majority opinion. The goods are well described therein. As I view the case, however, the abstract proposition presented by this appeal is not precisely as stated in the majority opinion, “whether the decoration must be by a superadded process after the article itself is complete for use,” but is a broader question, whether or not the ornamentation or decoration must be by a separate process from that which creates the article. This separate process may b.e devoted to the creation of a part of the article itself, as in the…
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