Scofield v. Browne

DALLAS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree for the complainant in a suit founded upon design patent No. 35,922, dated May 27, 1902, issued to Louis D. Frenot, assignor, etc. In the specification as at first presented, the leading or material feature of the design was said to consist “in the representation, in relief, of the face or head of an animal in front view, the mouth being opened to expose the teeth and the long hair at the cheeks being combed outwardly”; and to this was added the statement that “the animal is preferably a lion.” The design as thus described was rejected by…