Application of Howard B. Cummings

390 F.2d 1018

Application of Howard B. CUMMINGS.

Patent Appeal No. 7857.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

March 14, 1968.

Ely & Golrick, Albert L. Ely, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio, for appellant.

Joseph Schimmel, Washington, D. C. (Jere W. Sears, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for the Commissioner of Patents.

Before WORLEY, Chief Judge, and Judges RICH, SMITH, ALMOND, and KIRKPATRICK.*

SMITH, Judge.

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This appeal requires us to review the decision of the Board of Appeals1 affirming the examiner's rejection on prior art of claims 8 and 9 of appellant's application.2 The application is…