Legal Opinion
Application of Albert W. Musgrave
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided October 8, 1970No. Patent Appeal 8292PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals1 affirming the rejection of claims 1-14, 17-39, 47-58 and 60 of application serial No. 496,735, filed September 30, 1965, and entitled “Corrections for Seismic Data Obtained from Expanding-Spread.” Six apparatus claims have been allowed. We reverse.
THE INVENTION
The principal object of appellant’s invention is to obtain seismograms which delineate with a high degree of precision the nature of the subsurface formations in the earth’s crust.
Background
Appellant’s brief states:
A seismogram is a record of earth…
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