Legal Opinion
In re Sherwood
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided January 10, 1980No. Appeal No. 79-579PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDWIN, Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals (board) affirming the rejections of all the claims as unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101 for being directed to nonstatutory subject matter and under 35 U.S.C. § 112, paragraph one, for being based on a specification which fails to disclose the best mode. This application, serial No. 567,45s,1 was filed April 14, 1975, and is entitled “Continuous Automatic Migration of Seismic Reflection Data with Waveform Preservation.” We reverse.
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