Charles Cleaves Cole
How Judge Cole rules, drawn from 2 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Judge Cole no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge Cole decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
He treated two interference issues as the same invention where the second merely applied the first process to multiple masses at once.
“Whoever is the inventor of issue No. 1 is the inventor of issue No. 2”
Cautions
He limited estoppel relief to the actual prejudice caused by reliance rather than the full scope of the representation.
“all appellant can claim of appellee as a condition of redeeming his stock is the payment of the balance remaining due it on that debt”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“we shall therefore affirm the decision] of the Commissioner of Patents”
A historical record
Judge Cole no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.