Legal Opinion
Application of Smyth
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided June 5, 1951No. Patent Appeal 5808PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARRETT, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the Board ofAppeals of the United States Patent Office affirming that of the Primary Examiner, hereinafter referred to as the examiner, rejecting the claims, numbered 4 to 12, inclusive, of appellant’s application for patent relating to alleged “new and useful improvements in Control of Television Receivers.” No claims were allowed.
Claims 10 and 11 are method claims; the others relate to an apparatus by means of which the method is practiced.
The board selected claim 4 as illustrative of all the claims. In the brief for appellant…
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