In re Burgess

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting all the claims in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to a process of forming yarn.

Claims 1, 3, and 7 which are typical of the appealed claims are as follows:

1. A process for forming yarn containing intermingled fibers of a plurality of different colors which comprises forming a plurality of rovings from staple *1077fibers, dyeing at least one of said rovings a color different from that of at least one other of…