Legal Opinion
L-O-F Glass Fibers Company and Everett J. Cook v. Robert C. Watson, Commissioner of Patents
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 3, 1955No. 11780PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DANAHER,’ Circuit Judge.
Appellants, Glass Fibers, Inc., as assignee * and Everett J. Cook as claimant-inventor, by application, Sérial No. 628,-781, sought a patent for an “Apparatus for Producing Glass Fibers.” The Commissioner of Patents allowed claims 3, 13, 14,15 and 21 but disallowed claims 1, 2, 9, 23 and 24 as unpatentable over the prior art as disclosed in two Barnard patents No. 2,229,489 and No. 2,294,266 and the Staelin patent, No. 2,335,135. The two Barnard patents are substantially identical, and for our purposes may be treated as one. The Patent Office Board of Appeals, in…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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3Cited by34 opinions
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- Carl Otto v. Koppers Company, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, and Wheeling Steel Corporation, a Delaware CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1957
- Manville Boiler Company, Incorporated v. Columbia Boiler Company of Pottstown, Incorporated, and Columbia Boiler Company, IncorporatedCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1959
- Commissioner of Patents v. Deutsche Gold-Und-Silber-Scheideanstalt Vormals RoesslerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
- Technical Tape Corp. v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1956
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