Legal Opinion
In re Hotte
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided March 29, 1973No. Patent Appeal No. 8852PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of claims 1-7 of appellant’s application entitled “Electrical Capacitor and Method,” Serial No. 688,556, filed December 6, 1967, as unpatentable over the prior art (35 U.S.C. § 103).
*645THE INVENTION
Appellant’s invention relates to a method of simultaneously manufacturing a plurality of electrical capacitors and to the capacitors produced thereby. Figs. l and 5 illustrate the method and the product:
*646In Fig. 1, a glass film 10 separates a plurality of electrically conductive plate…
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