In re Lane

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 of the claims, Nos. 1, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, and 16 in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to a method of making a food product. Claims 1 and 15 are sufficiently representative of the appealed claims. They read:

1. A method of making an edible product that comprises impregnating the product with a sea-food juice, and cooking the impregnated product.

15. A method of making a potato chip that comprises crushing…