In re Henley

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the holding of the Primary Examiner rejecting as unpatentable over the prior art claim 4, the only remaining claim in appellant’s application for a patent on a “Clothes Closet Pole.”

The features of the alleged invention are readily apparent from a consideration of claim 4, which reads as follows:

A clothes closet pole assembly comprising an extensible rod, and means disposed at each end of said rod for supporting said rod, said means comprising a *702hanger including a bracket having a cnp…