In re Isherwood
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents rejecting an application for a patent. The facts are-stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Orsdel
This appeal is from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents refusing a patent to appellant, Joseph William Isherwood, for an improvement in the construction of seagoing vessels.
Twelve claims were rejected, of which the first is illustrative: “1. A vessel in its main body portion provided with consecutive transverse frames individually a plurality of times stronger and spaced a plurality of times farther apart than has heretofore been customary in the same class of vessel, said frames extending to the shell or deck plating of the vessel, said vessel being also provided in said portion…
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