Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. v. Coe

ARNOLD, Associate Justice.

The court below dismissed a complaint ifor a mandatory injunction to require the Commissioner of Patents to enter and consider certain amended claims to a parent application which had been filed in 1938 as a division and continuation in part of an earlier application filed in 1933.

The parent application was finally rejected in 1941, after appellant had presented 88 claims. After that final rejection the appellant submitted the further amendments involved in this case which present 9 new claims, some of which are copied from another application. The purpose of the…