In Re Max A. Gulack
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARD S. SMITH, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Board of Appeals sustaining the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 of claims 1-4 and 6 of application serial No. 935,183, filed August 18, 1978, entitled “Educational and Recreational Mathematical Device in the Form of a Band, Ring or Concentric Rings.” We reverse.
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The stated object of the disclosed invention is to exploit certain arithmetic properties of all prime numbers larger than 5, P,1 to create the semblance of magic or to educate with respect to intriguing aspects of number theory.
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