Application of Emil H. Blattner

WORLEY, Judge.

This is. an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office sustaining the Primary Examiner’s rejection of claims 11, 12, and 13 of appellant’s application for a patent on a Side Bearing, on the ground of double patenting in view of appellant’s patent, No. 2,515,853. That patent was granted July 18, 1950, on an application filed June 19, 1948. The appealed application was filed June 16, 1948 — three' days prior to the application on which the patent was issued.

Since no issues of fact are involved it is unnecessary to consider in detail the…