In re Streckert

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting all the claims in appellants’ application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to a method of preserving meat and the product thereof.

Claims 9, 12, and 20 are sufficiently representative of the appealed claims. They read:

9. The method of preserving hams comprising smoking at a temperature higher than 158° F., treating the surface of said hams with ultra-violet radiation to kill bacteria while allowing them to cool to below 70° F.,…