Fessenden v. Coe

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia dismissing, after a hearing on the merits, a bill of complaint filed by the appellant under Rev.Stat. § 4915, as amended, 35 U.S.C.A. § 63. The appellant Fessenden, hereafter referred to as .Fessenden, sought by the bill to compel the appellee, the United States Commissioner of Patents, ¡hereafter referred to as thé Commissioner, to issue a patent on Fessenden’s application No. 532,488 for a patent on high tension insulators.

In the Patent Office the Board of…