Worel v. Ooms

KEECH, Justice.

I find myself unable to agree with the determination of the examiner and the Board of Appeals of the Patent Office in denying claims 15, 16, and 17 in the application of the plaintiff Glen J. Word for a patent entitled “Piston Expander for Slotted and Unslotted Piston Skirts” (Serial No. 356,608).

At the outset, I should state that this conclusion is based on additional testimony and exhibits introduced at the hearing before the Court and demonstrations by the plaintiff of the operation of actual or scale models of the Word, Moore, Pleaton, and Johnson expanders, as well as the…