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In re Richman

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

Decided October 6, 1977No. Patent Appeal No. 77-519PublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MILLER, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) Board of Appeals (“board”), unchanged on reconsideration, sustaining the rejection of claims 1-41 under 35 USC 101 for being directed to nonstatutory subject matter. We affirm.

The Invention

The invention involves a method of calculating (according to a mathematical formula) an average boresight correction angle for an airborne, coherent pulse doppler, synthetic aperture, signal processing radar, using actual terrain measurements, and a method of calculating (according to a mathematical formula) the…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Gottschalk v. BensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Dann v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  3. In re ChatfieldCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1976
  4. In re KuehlCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1973
  5. In re ChristensenCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1973

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3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Parker v. FlookSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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  3. In re FreemanCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1978
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  5. In Re Ralph R. Grams and Dennis C. LezotteCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1989

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