In re Grigsby

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The appellant applied for a design patent for a device known as a weather shield and glare visor. The article consists of an aluminum frame having a central dividing rib, and carrying two translucent sections or panes. It is of the type to be mounted above the wind shield at the front of an automobile, in order to protect the wind shield from rain and sleet, and to shield the driver from the glare of the sun.

The application was rejected by the Acting Examiner, upon the ground that the design was not new, original, and ornamental, in view of certain prior design patents,…