Legal Opinion
Application of Charles Curtis Simmons
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided February 13, 1963No. Patent Appeal 6872PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALMOND, Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of claims 16 and 17, the only claims remaining in application Ser. No. 358,846, filed June 1, 1953, for “Spray Coating of Articles.”
The invention relates to an apparatus for spraying articles with electrostati-cally charged coating material. As noted in the specification, the invention is an improvement on the apparatus of appellant’s copending application Ser. No. 274,-909, filed March 5, 1952, which matured into Patent No. 2,808,343, issued October 1, 1957.
The claims read:
“16. In an…
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