In re Boudin

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the primary examiner rejecting claims 1 to 4, inclusive, in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to a process and an apparatus for making sheet glass.

Claims 1 and 2 were involved in an interference with the patent to Howard, No. 1616370, interference No. 55420.

On motion by the patentee, the interference was dissolved by the-law examiner on the ground that the counts were unpatentable to appellant over the claims contained in his patent No.…