Legal Opinion
Application of Walter S. Kaghan, William J. Schmitt and Percy M. Kay
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided December 14, 1967No. Patent Appeal 7852PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALMOND, Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of claims 6 and 7, all of the claims in the application entitled “Method for Improving Electric Glow Discharge Treatment of Plastic Materials.” The application before us is serial No. 184,404 and was filed April 2, 1962 as a continuation-in-part of application serial No. 602,506 filed August 7, 1956.
The invention involves the corona discharge treatment of polyolefin film in order to make the surface of the film receptive to inks or other coating materials. The novelty of appellants’…
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