In re Christensen

LANE, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals, adhered to on reconsideration, affirming the rejection of claims 4 and 5 of appellant’s application entitled “Method of Determining Subsurface Porosity.”1 No claims were allowed. Subsequent to the oral argument of this appeal, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its opinion in Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63, 93 S.Ct. 253, 34 L.Ed.2d 273 (1972) (hereafter Benson). We allowed appellant and appellee here to file supplemental briefs directed to that Supreme Court opinion and both have done so.…