In re Kopplin

Appellant on April 25,1940 filed his patent application, Serial No. 331,515, for Smooth Surface Fibrous Article. All of the claims, 3 to 6 inclusive, 9 to 11 inclusive and 13 to 16 inclusive, were rejected by the Primary Examiner as unpatentable over the prior art.

The references relied upon are:

Novotny, 1,398,143, November 22, 1921;

Fowler, 2,080,886, May 18, 1937;

Dodge 2,249,888, July 22, 1941;

Thompson et al., 2,267,316, December 23, 1941.

The Primary Examiner rejected claims 3 to 6 inclusive as not being patentable over the Dodge reference in view of the Novotny patent, *849and also for the…