Application of John Covell Collier

RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of claim 17 of application serial No. 242,973, filed December 7, 1962, entitled “Electrical Connections.”

The rejection of claim 17 is based on two grounds: (1) that it does not comply with 35 U.S.C. § 112 because incomplete and indefinite; (2) that the subject matter defined by the claim is obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in view of a patent to Dumire et al., No. 3,109,052, Oct. 29, 1963. Other references were cited and relied on by the examiner but the board held them merely cumulative.

The…