In re Henderson
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Appeal from the Commissioner of Patents. Application by Clark T. Henderson for a patent. From a decision of the Commissioner of Patents, refusing to allow claims 1 to 5 of the application, applicant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SMYTH, Chief Justice.
The Commissioner of Patents refused to allow claims 1 to 5, inclusive, of Henderson’s application, on the ground that he was estopped from asserting them. Claim 1 is representative of the others, and is as follows:
A controller having positive and negative line terminals and terminals for the device to be controlled, an electromagnetic switch for connecting one of *708the line terminals to one of the terminals for said, device, another electromagnetic switch for connecting the same line terminal to the other terminal for said device, a third electromagnetic switch for…
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