Application of Jones

JACKSON, Judge.

Appellant has appealed from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming a decision of the Primary Examiner finally rejecting claims 6 and 8 of an application relating to “Plastic Caps for Attachment of Snap Fastener Sockets and the Like,” serial No. 763,861, filed July 26, 1947.

Three claims were allowed.

The involved claims were rejected as failing to patentably distinguish over a patent to La Dow, No. 449,940, April 7, 1891. The rejected claims read as follows:

“6. ■ An attaching cap for assembling a snap fastener part to a support, said cap…