Legal Opinion
In re Bradley
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided July 5, 1979No. Appeal No. 79-533PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals (board) affirming the rejection of claims 1-6, all of the claims in appellants’ application serial No. 570,331, filed April 21, 1975, for “Switch System Base Mechanism,” as being drawn to subject matter which is non-statutory under 35 U.S.C. § 101. We reverse.
The Invention
Appellants’ invention is in the field of computer technology. It does not relate to computer applications, i. e., any specific task that a computer is asked to perform, but rather to the internal operation of the computer…
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