In re Holslag

Hatfield, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:

This is an appeal from the decision of tbe Board of Appeals of tbe United States Patent Office affirming tbe decision of tbe Primary Examiner rejecting all of the claims, Nos. 1 to 11, inclusive, in appellant’s application for an alleged invention relating to an arc welding electrode bolder. Tbe rejection was based on tbe grounds that tbe appealed claims are drawn to aggregations and that they define no invention over tbe prior art.

Claims 2, 3, and 6 are representative of tbe appealed claims. They read:

2. In an arc welding electrode bolder…