In re Reckford

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the primary examiner rejecting claim 14, the only one in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to improvements in rubber eraser attachments for lead pencils.

The appealed claim reads as follows:

An article of manufacture consisting of an integrally formed ferrule whose wall is approximately concentric throughout to a common axis and which comprises, an annular shoulder at the middle portion thereof, a pencil receiving portion of relatively…