In re Ashbaugh

This appeal is from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming that of the Primary. Examiner, rejecting method claims 15 to 20, inclusive, of an application for a patent for a method and apparatus for injection of plastics, in a continuous strip. Eight apparatus claims were allowed.

The involved claims were rejected by the Primary Examiner as reciting nothing more than the mode of operation of appellant’s device, *903and because in tbe opinion of tbe examiner they do not recite a method of treating material, such as falls within the meaning of the statutes. The…