Legal Opinion
In re Meyer
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided September 16, 1982No. Appeal No. 82-510PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Judge.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) Board of Appeals (“board”) sustaining the examiner’s rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 101 of all claims in application serial No. 465,-574, filed April 30, 1974, entitled “Process and Apparatus for Identifying Locations of Probable Malfunction.” We affirm.
BACKGROUND
Appellants in their brief to this court describe their invention, in pertinent part, as follows:
The invention is a process and an apparatus for carrying out the process of testing a complex system and analyzing the results of these tests. The…
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