In re Wiedman

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, sustaining the Primary Examiner’s rejection of claims 8 and 9, the only remaining claims of appellant’s application for a patent on a curb member, on the ground of lack of invention over the prior art. No claims were allowed.

The appealed claims read:

8. A curb member, comprising an elongated flat metal base plate, an elongated hollow inverted generally V-shaped upstanding metal member arranged on and rigidly connected to said base plate and having flat side walls conjoined at their upper ends and…