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APPLICATION OF McILROY

Patent Appeal No. 8534.

442 F.2d 1397 (1971)

Application of Malcolm D. McILROY.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

May 27, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman D. McClaskey Washington, D. C., attorney of record, for appellant. Robert Preston Miller, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

S. Wm. Cochran, Washington, D. C., for the Commissioner of Patents. Jere W. Sears, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before RICH, ALMOND, BALDWIN and LANE, Judges, and LANDIS, Judge, United States Customs Court, sitting by designation.

LANE, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of method claims 1-7 and 9 in application serial No. 417,973, filed December 14, 1964, for "Machine Processing of Symbolic Data Constituents." We reverse. Two apparatus claims, corresponding generally to the rejected method claims by virtue of functional ("means for") expressions, stand allowed.

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