MATTER OF APPLICATION OF ACKERMAN, 557 F.2d 819 (C.C.P.A. 1977)

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ROGER G. ACKERMAN AND BRUCE R. KARSTETTER.

Patent Appeal No. 76-711.United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
June 23, 1977.

Appeal from Board of Appeals, Serial No. 714,013.

[1] REVERSED.

Clinton S. Janes, Jr., Corning, N.Y., attorney of record, for appellants.

Joseph F. Nakamura, Washington, D.C., for the Commissioner of Patents; Fred E. McKelvey, Jere W. Sears, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, RICH, BALDWIN, and MILLER, Judges, and SCOVEL RICHARDSON, Associate Judge, United States Customs Court.

MILLER, Judge.

[2] Identical issues having been disposed of in Patent Appeal No. 76-710, In re Voss, Cust. Pat.App., 557 F.2d 812 decided this date, the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Appeals is reversed in accordance with our opinion in that case.

[3] REVERSED.

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