In re Boileau

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 claims 3, 4, 5, and 9 to 15, inclusive, in appellant’s application for a patent for an invention for a churn, on the ground of lack.of invention over the prior art. Claims 1, 2, 6, 7, and.8 were •allowed by the board.

Claims 3, 4, 9, and 14 are typical of the appealed claims. They read:

3. A churn including a wooden drum Raving oppositely disposed wooden end walls, rotatable supports for rotatably supporting said drum, agitating shelves within…