Case ID: app-dc_48/html/0590-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

IN RE HURT.
    Patents ; Patentability.
    A decision of the Commissioner of Patents rejecting the claims of an application for a patent for a highly technical process relating to a composition alleged to possess tanning properties and the method of making it, was affirmed, in view of references cited.
    
      No. 1217.
    Patent Appeals.
    Submitted March 12, 1919.
    Decided March 31, 1919.
    Hearing on an appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents rejecting claims of an application for a patent.
    
      Affirmed.
    
    The facts are stated in the opinion.
    
      Mr. A. M. Houghton for the appellant.
    
      Mr. Theodore A. Hostetler for the Commissioner of Patents.
   P er Curiam :

This appeal is from the decision of the Commissioner of Patents rejecting certain claims of appellant, Henry Hicks Hurt, for a process relating to a composition alleged to possess tanning properties and the method of making it.

The rejection in each of the tribunals below was for noninvention in view of the state of the art. Pive references were cited as anticipating appellant’s invention. The process involved is highly technical, and we find nothing to indicate error in the conclusion reached by the experts of the Patent Office.

The decision of the Commissioner of Patents is affirmed, and the clerk is directed to certify these proceedings as by law required. Affirmed.