Matter of the Application of Edward A. Patton and Forrest F. Beil

JOHNSON, Acting Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the holding of the Primary Examiner rejecting as unpatentable claims 34, 35, 36, and 37, the only remaining claims in appellants’ application for a patent entitled “Cellu-losic Board and Method of Treating the Same.”

The alleged invention, as disclosed in the specification and defined in the claims, relates to a method of ornamenting construction board which is made from sawdust bound together with a thermoset-ting resinous binder. This type of board, before…