In re Jennings

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 claims 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 15 in appellant’s application for a patent for an invention for a freezing container.

Claims 3 and 4 were allowed by the Primary Examiner.

Claims 1 and 6, which are typical of the appealed claims, read:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a sharp-freezing container for substances to be frozen, and partitions for dividing the container into a plurality of ice ■cube molds, said partitions being formed of resilient,…