APPLICATION OF WALDBAUM

Patent Appeal No. 76-690.

559 F.2d 611 (1977)

Application of Gerald WALDBAUM.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard R. Popper, Murray Hill, N. J., atty. of record, for appellant.

Joseph F. Nakamura, Washington, D. C., for the Commissioner of Patents, Jere W. Sears, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, RICH, BALDWIN, and MILLER, Judges, and HERBERT N. MALETZ, Associate Judge, United States Customs Court.


MILLER, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals ("board") affirming the rejection under 35 U.S.C. §§ 100 and 101 of claims 1, 2, 9, and 14-201 for being directed to nonstatutory subject matter. We affirm.

The Invention

The invention involves: a method for controlling a data processor to determine the relative numbers of O's and 1's in a data word...

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