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MINNESOTA MINING & MFG. CO. v. COE

Nos. 7539-7541.

118 F.2d 593 (1940)

MINNESOTA MINING & MFG. CO. v. COE, Commissioner of Patents.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided December 30, 1940.

Rehearing Denied February 12, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry H. Benjamin and Charles S. Grindle, both of Washington, D. C., William H. Abbott, of Chicago, Ill., and Harold J. Kinney, of Saint Paul, Minn., for appellant.

William Wallace Cochran, United States Patent Office, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, VINSON, and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

The Patent Office rejected for lack of invention certain patent claims for improvements in making flexible abrasives known as sandpaper. In suits brought by appellant under § 4915, R. S.,1 the District Court found that the claims now in issue were not patentable over the prior art.2

These claims are for abrasive sheets or belts...

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