In re Deakins

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 54 to 5J, inclusive, and 64 to 68, inclusive, in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to improvements in a mud pump valve.

Of the appealed claims, Nos. 54 and 64 are illustrative. They read:

54. In combination; ■ a valve body adapted to move to and from a cooperating annular valve seat parallel to the axis of the valve body; and an annular sealing member on the upper face of the valve body having a…