In re Wagner

Claims 20 to 25, inclusive, of appellants’ aplication for a patent relating to a recording maximum demand meter were rejected by the Primary Examiner of the United States Patent Office upon the prior art cited, and some of the claims for other reasons which, in view of our conclusion, we need not state or discuss. Upon appeal, the decision of the examiner was affirmed by the Board of Appeals. From the decision of the latter, appellants have here appealed.

A recording maximum demand meter does not total the electrical current in the manner that the conventional household watt-hour meters do but…