In re Meinecke

By concurring decisions the respective tribunals of the Patent Office rejected all of appellant’s claims for patent on improvements on syringes. The claimed invention is for a method of marking, by corresponding numbers, the barrels and pistons of glass syringes, *753so that when taken apart for sterilization or other purpose, the particular piston belonging to a particular barrel may be easily identified; also for the articles themselves.

Appellant quotes claims 4 and 5 of his application as originally filed (11 and 12 in the final form) as typical:

4. As a new article of manufacture a glass…