In re Smith

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, affirming a decision of the examiner *1027rejecting claims 36 to 43, inclusive, of appellant’s application for a patent for lack of patentability over the cited prior art. Claim 1 was allowed. All of the rejected claims are apparatus claims, with the exception of claim 43 which is a method claim.

Claims 36 and 43 are illustrative of the claims in issue, and read as follows:

36. In apparatus for completing a well Raving casing and a flow tubing therein, in formation having high pressure, a casing head, a…