In re Williams

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the holding of the Primary Examiner rejecting, as unpatentable over the prior art, claim 20 of appellant’s application for a patent for “Individually Frozen Eggs and Process of Making the Same.”

Claim 20, the only claim on appeal, relates to a method of quick-freezing a whole egg, with its yolk intact, which has been removed from its shell. Broadly, the method consists of the steps of removing the egg from its shell and placing it in a flexible air-impermeable container, and freezing it.…