In re Slate

The brief of the Solicitor for the United States Patent Office states the issues involved in this appeal as follows:

Claim 38 having been allowed, this was originally an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals affirming that of the examiner denying patentability in view of the prior art of claims 29, 36, and 41.

After the original notice of appeal had been filed a supplemental notice of appeal was filed * * * adding a fourth assignment of error in connection with the refusal of the Patent Office to admit the proposed claims 42, 43, and 44. The supplemental notice of appeal was filed…