17 F.2d 688 - In re Forsyth — 17 F.2d 688

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Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1941

1 federal appellate ·

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

¶1Patents <@=66(4) — Applicant for patent for ornamental design for disk wheel held barred by existing patents, if not anticipated by prior art.

¶2Applicant for patent for ornamental design for disk wheel held completely barred by existing patents cited by Commissioner, if not anticipated by prior disclosures in the art.

¶3Appeal from Commissioner of Patents.

¶4In the matter of the application of George H. Forsyth for patent. From a decision of the Commissioner of Patents, denying application, applicant appeals.

¶5Affirmed.

¶6L. T. Greist, of Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

¶7T. A. Hostetler, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

¶8• Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB and VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justices.

¶9VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

¶10Appellant was denied a .patent on a claim for an ornamental design for a disk wheel, and accordingly this appeal was taken.

¶11We deem it unnecessary to consider the case at length, as we are clearly of the opinion that, if appellant’s design would be patentable, in the absence of anticipation by the disclosures of the prior art, he is completely barred by existing patents cited in the decisions of the tribunals below.

¶12The decision of the Commissioner is affirmed: