In re Krasnow

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office rejecting all of the claims (Nos. 1 to 18, inclusive, 20 and 21) in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to apparatus and a method for “the measurement of radioactivity within boreholes,” for example, oil wells.

Claims, 1,2, 5, 6,7,8, and 14 are sufficiently illustrative of the claims,on appeal which were rejected on prior art. They read:

1. In an apparatus for measuring radioactivity within a borehole, a measuring system, sensitive to radioactivity, and adapted to be…