In re Hadsel

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting claims 1 to 12, inclusive, all the claims in appellant’s application for a patent for “Elevator Control Device,” as being unpatentable by reason of double patenting over appellant’s prior patent, No. 2,338,582.

Claim 1 is considered illustrative, and reads as follows:

1. In an elevator control device, the combination of an operator’s hand rest mounted in the elevator car and spaced from a wall in the ear to provide a recess behind said hand…