In re Flude

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of che United States Patent Office affirming the action of the Primary Examiner in rejecting claims 1, 2, and 19 to 24, inclusive, comprising all the claims in appellant’s application for a patent for alleged “new and useful improvements in Island and Method of Making.”

Claims 1, 2, and 23 are illustrative and sufficiently descriptive of the involved subject matter. They read—

1. The method of forming a natural island which consists in selecting a desirable location, dredging around the location, depositing the dredged material oh the…