In Re Richard C. Beaver

PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

On the appeal of Richard C. Beaver from the decision of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, rejecting claims 18 through 32, all the claims of patent application Serial No. 828,029, we vacate the Board’s decision for failure to review all the appealed claims in accordance with 37 C.F.R. §§ 1.191, 1.192, and 1.196, thus failing to fulfill the requirements of 35 U.S.C. § 134. We remand for decision on the merits of all the claims.

OPINION

The Board held that applicant Beaver had not preserved the independent…