Besser v. Ooms

Appellant’s bill to authorize the Commissioner of Patents to grant a patent1 was *18dismissed by the District Court. The appealed claims of appellant’s application relaté to printing or “imprinting,” on the ■face of a check, a facsimile signature of ■the payee. Appellant prints this facsimile across the right-hand end of the check. If the check is folded endwise after it has been endorsed, the endorsement can readily 'be compared with the facsimile. Patton Patent No. 1,367,754 uses a handwritten .specimen signature for the same purpose of comparison with the endorsement, and in practically the…