Application of James R. Tiffin and Earl Erdman

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

The Patent Office petitions for a rehearing or modification of our decision, handed down June 10, 1971. The solicitor’s brief in support of the petition concedes to appellant claims 4, 7, and 8, drawn to processes of making “cups,” and claim 17, drawn to a “cup,” but asks reversal of our decision as to claims 1, 2, 10, * 11, and 13, drawn broadly to processes of making “containers,” and claims 3, 12, and 14-16, drawn to “containers.”

This distinction between the two groups of claims is based (1) on appellants’ specification, in which it is stated that,

While the…