In re McDonald

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming that of the examiner, rejecting all of the claims of appellant’s application, eight in number, for failure to define invention over the prior art.

Claim 7 is illustrative of the claims on appeal and reads as follows:

7. In a power distribution and control system a source of polyphase power, distribution circuits for supplying power to a plurality of different load circuits from said source, polyphase relays located adjacent selected ones of said load *1100circuits and having means for controlling…