Application of Homer G. Thomson

This opinion is in two parts. PART I is an opinion in the usual form developing the facts and issues as I see them, in more detail and I hope more accurately than does the majority opinion, and explaining the basis on which I believe the rejection should be reversed.1 Part II states the grounds on which I consider the majority opinion to be untenable regardless of the result reached.

PART I

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of claims 1, 3-6, 9, and 12 of application serial No. 720,-845, filed March 12, 1958, for “Composition Resistor…