In re Listen

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the *1224United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting all of the claims (Nos. 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, and 10) in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to a “cheese-meat loaf” and to a method of preparing the same.

Claims 1, 3, 4, and 9 are method claims, of which claims 1 and 3 are illustrative, and claims 7 and 10 are product claims, of which claim 7 is illustrative. We quote claims 1, 3, and 7:

1. In a method of preparing a cheese-meat loaf, the steps of surrounding a…