In re Fairbanks

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming that of the Primary Examiner finally rejecting all of the claims, Nos. 9,10,11, 12, and 15, of appellant’s application for patent, Serial No. 125,997, filed November 7, 1949, for “Motion Picture Photographing.”

Claims 9 and 15 were cited by the Board of Appeals as illustrative, and read as follows:

9. The method of continuously photographing action occurring in a number of different sets in which long, intermediate, and close-up shots are to be photographed comprising positioning a plurality…