In re Markel

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents, refusing an application for reissue of a patent, relating to erossheads for locomotive engines, with broader claims; the application having been filed almost five years after the grant of the patent.

Two reasons for the allowance of this application are advanced: First, that applicant’s delay was due to the fact that he was employed by the American government as chief locomotive inspector on new railway locomotives for the United States Railroad Administration, during the World War; and, second, that the provisions…