APPLICATION OF LAVERNE

Patent Appeal No. 7546.

356 F.2d 1003 (1966)

Application of Erwine LAVERNE and Estelle Laverne.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

March 10, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Striker, Gordon D. Coplein, New York City, for appellants.

Clarence W. Moore, Washington, D. C. (S. Wm. Cochran, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Commissioner of Patents.

Before RICH, Acting Chief Judge, and MARTIN, SMITH and ALMOND, Judges.


RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of application serial No. D-68,190, filed January 4, 1962, for a Design for Chair or the Like.

The sole issue, as we see it, is the obviousness of appellants' design, under 35 U.S.C. § 103, in view of the single reference relied on by the board, the design patent to Eero Saarinen, Des. 181,945, issued Jan. 21, 1958. The Patent Office Solicitor so...

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