In re Emmey

Appellants appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming that of the Primary Examiner finally rejecting all of the claims 3, 4 and 6 to 20, inclusive, of an application for a patent for “Improvements in Method of Identifying Goods and Identifying Label Used Therewith.”

Claims 8 to 11, inclusive, are method claims. All of the other claims relate to articles of manufacture.

Claims 3, 8 and 20 are illustrative of the subject matter of the application and read as follows:

3. An article of manufacture comprising a film of synthetic resin for forming…