In re Strommen

The Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirmed the Primary Examiner in rejecting claim 2 and reversed him in rejecting claim 1 of appellant’s application for a patent on a method of fitting hearing aids for the use of persons with impaired hearing.

The applicant has appealed here for a review and revision of the board’s decision as to claim 2. For convenience of analysis and reference, we here quote claim 2 in step-by-step form:

2. A sonic method of fitting a deafened person with hearing aid apparatus, which comprises—(a) determining from his responses the acuity of his…