In re Heritage

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 1, 3, 7, 9, and 31 in appellant’s application for a patent for an invention relating to a method of making a coated porous structural fiber board.

Claims 2, 4, 8,10, 29, and 30 in appellant’s application were allowed by the board.

Claim 1 is sufficiently illustrative of the appealed claims. It reads:

1. The method of making a coated rigid iiorous structural fiber board which comprises coating a wet structural-board-forming mat of fibers…