In re Weeks

Appellant has here appealed from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the Patent Office sustaining the action of the examiner in rejecting his 11 claims numbered 20 to 30, inclusive, for “new and useful improvements in portable hoisting apparatus.”

Appellant’s claimed invention relates primarily to stevedoring, that is, to the unloading of ships, particularly ocean-going vessels.

Claim Uo. 26 is for the method; the remainder are directed to the article.

From appellant’s brief we quote the following:

Claims 20 to 23, 27, 29, and 30 are descriptions of the variants of structure-which basically…