BLAND, Associate Judge.
The Primary Examiner of the United States Patent Office allowed several apparatus claims in appellant's application for a patent on a coffee machine, but refused to allow claim 33, drawn to a process of making coffee, on the grounds that there was want of invention over the prior art, and that the claim merely defined the function of a particular coffee-making device.
The Board of Appeals affirmed the action of the Examiner for reasons...
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