In Re Rice

LENROOT, Associate Judge.

This appeal brings before us for review a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming a decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting, upon the grounds hereinafter stated, claims 17 to 29, inclusive, of appellant’s application for a patent. No claims were allowed.

Claim 17 is illustrative of the subject matter of the claims before us and reads as follows: “17. The art of writing sheet music which comprises reproducing upon a paper sheet a plurality of spaced charts consisting of a pictorial representation of a portion of a piano keyboard,…