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862 Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office 1 (1969)

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OFFICIAL GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE

May 6, 1969

Volume 862

Number 1

PATENTS
NOTICES

Board of Appeals Decisions Rendered in the Month of
March 1969
Examiner affirmed -------------------------------- 126
Examiner affirmed in part -------------------------- 22
Examiner reversed --------------------------------    24
Total -------------------------------------- 172
Adverse Decisions in Interferences
In the designated interferences involving the indicated
claims of the following patents final decisions have been ren-
dered that the respective patentees were not the first in-
ventors with respect to the claims listed.
Patent No. 3,196,629, R. E. Wood, REFRIGERATION
HEAD PRESSURE CONTROL SYSTEMS, decided Dec. 19,
1968, Interference No. 95,474, claims 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Patent No. 3,221,548, J. C. Wilson, COMBINATION LOG-
GING SYSTEM AND METHOD, decided Mar. 14, 1969, Inter-
ference No. 95,879, claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and S.
Patent No. 3,233,036, L. Jachimowicz, CORROSION
PROOF SHIELDING TAPE FOR SHIELDING TELEPHONE
CABLES, decided Nov. 18, 1968, Interference No. 96,081,
claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
Patent No. 3,270,066, H. Von Brachel, SUBSTITUTED
POLYHALOCYCLOPENTADIENES AND PROCESSES FOR
THEIR PRODUCTION, decided Mar. 10, 1969, Interference
No. 95,796, claim 2,
Patent No. 3,271,477, E. N. Kresge, GRAFTED TERPOLY-
MERS, decided Feb. 13, 1969, Interference No. 95,973, claims
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 11.
Patent No. 3,286,068, A. R. Norden and G. W. Knecht,
HALF-WIDTH CIRCUIT BREAKER ADAPTER ARRANGE-
MENT, decided Mar. 14, 1969, Interference No. 95,868, claims
1, 2, 3and 4.
Patent No. 3,363,390, J. Crane and G. C. Fulmer, EX-
TRUDED PLASTIC PANEL-FRAMING STRIP HAVING
INTEGRAL RIGID BODY SECTION AND RESILIENTLY
FLEXIBLE PANEL-GRIPPING FLANGES, decided Feb. 12,
1969, Interference No. 96,414, claims 1 and 2.
Disclosure Document Program
On November 23, 1968, a notice proposing a Disclosure
Document Program was published in the Federal Register
(33 F.R. 17370). Interested persons were given over 30 days.
in which to submit written comments, suggestions, or objec-
tions regarding te proposed program. Full consideration has
been given to all comments that were received in response
to the public notice.
Effective immediately and until further notice, the Patent
Office will accept and preserve for a period of at least 2 years

Disclosure Documents which may be used as evidence of
conception of an Invention. A Disclosure Document may be
any paper which discloses an invention and is signed by the
inventor(s) and is forwarded to the Patent Office by any one
of the inventor(s), the owner or the attorney or agent of the
inventor(s) or owner. It is not a patent application, nor will
its receipt date in the Patent Office in any way become the
effective filing date of a later-filed application. However, like
patent applications, these documents will be retained in con-
fidence by the Patent Office.
The value of the conventional properly witnessed and no-
tarized records as evidence of conception of an invention is
not diminished. This program is being made available as a
service to those persons desiring to use it. A Disclosure Docu-
ment should be a more creditable form of evidence than the
self-addressed envelope form of evidence often used by
inventors.
Although there are no restrictions as to its content and
claims are unnecessary, the benefits obtainable from a Dis-
closure Document will depend directly upon the content and
adequacy of its disclosure. Therefore, it is strongly urged that
the document contain a clear and complete explanation of
the manner and process of making and using the invention in
sufficient detail, that at least a person having ordinary knowl-
edge in the field of the invention would be able to make and
use the invention. When the nature of the invention admits,
a drawing or sketch should be furnished. The use or utility
of the invention should be described, especially in chemical
inventions.
A Disclosure Document will be destroyed 2 years after its
receipt date unless it is referred to in a separate paper filed
in a related patent application within said 2-year period. In a
new patent application, The Disclosure Document may be re-
ferred to in the letter of transmittal. Disclosure Documents,
if accepted, will not be returned. Unless it is desired to rely
upon a Disclosure Document as evidence, it need not be re-
ferred to in the file of a later filed patent application. However,
if the Disclosure Document is referred to, the Document will
be preserved by the Patent Office similarly to patent applica-
tions.
The Disclosure Document must be limited to written matter
or drawings on paper or other thin flexible material, such as
linen or plastic drafting material, having dimensions, or be-
ing folded to a size, not to exceed 8%/, by 13 inches. Photo-
graphs will also be acceptable. Each page should be num-
bered and have permanent indicia sufficiently dark to allow
copying by ordinary reproducing equipment.
In addition, each Disclosure Document, when submitted,
must include a fee of $10, a stamped, self-addressed envelope
and a separate paper, in duplicate, signed by the inventor stat-
ing that he is the inventor and requesting that the enclosed
material be received for processing under the Disclosure Doc-
ument Program. The papers will be stamped by the Office with
an identifying number and receipt date, and the duplicate
request returned in the self-addressed envelope together with
a notice. This notice will indicate that the Disclosure Docu-
ment may be relied upon only as evidence and that a patent

New Applications Received During February 1969
Patents --------------------------------------- 7698
Designs --------------------------------------- 394
Plant Patents ----------------------------------  10
Reissues --------------------------------------  41
Total ----------------------------------- 8143

Issue-May 6, 1969
Patents------- 1300-No. 3,441,960 to No. 3,443,259, incl.
Designs ------- 116-No. 214,008 to No. 214,123, incl.
Plant Patents.-   4-No.     2,882 to No.  2,885, incl.
Total   - --- 1420
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