In re Sawyer

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the action of three examiners in their final rejection under “Dual Prosecution” of claims 8 to 15, *1055inclusive, in appellant’s application for the reissue of his patent No. 2,319,267. Claims 1 and 2 have been allowed. Those two claims, drawn to a product, namely, “An individual multilayer fibrous article of dished shape,” are identical in terms with the two claims of the patent which is sought to be reissued.

Appellant alleges that the claims here in issue should have been included in the…