In Re Cresswell

On appeal from the rejection of claims 21-23 of appellant’s application for a patent “For Collagenous Strands and Method of Making Same,” this court by unanimous decision on June 30, 1950, reversed the decision of the Board of Appeals and in so doing held, on the point raised here now, that “the claims are sufficiently definite to define the product in a patentable sense.”

The petition of the solicitor for rehearing on the involved portion of the court’s decision was filed August 16 and granted December 1, and the majority upon reconsideration has reached the conclusion that the original…