In re Buttolph

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of tlie Primary Examiner rejecting claims 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 23, 24, 25, 82 to 4.3, inclusive, 51 to 57, inclusive, and 61 to 67, inclusive, in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to improvements in vapor arc lamps, and a method for operating the same.

At the time of the oral arguments in this court, counsel for appellant moved to dismiss claims 1, 8, 9, 10, 32 to 43, inclusive, 56, 57, and 66.

Claims 2, 24, 51, and 55 are illustrative. They read:

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