In re Fawick

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 denying, claims 1 to 7, 9 to 19, and 21 to 31, inclusive, in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to improvements in a transmission for automotive vehicles. Claim 8 was allowed. Claim 20 was canceled by appellant.

Claims 2, 9, and 15 are illustrative. They read:

2. In combination, a gear box having a drive shaft, a stationary countershaft entirely at one side of the drive slia/t and a stub shaft, a housing secured on the…