APPLICATION OF FLOOK

Patent Appeal No. 77-512.

559 F.2d 21 (1977)

Application of Dale R. FLOOK.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

August 4, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Uxa, Thomas J. Clough, John B. Goodman, Harvey, Ill., attorneys of record, for appellant.

Joseph F. Nakamura, Washington, D. C., for the Commissioner of Patents, Thomas E. Lynch, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, BALDWIN, LANE and MILLER, Judges.


BALDWIN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals (board) sustaining the rejection of claims 1 through 10 of appellant's application for "Method for Updating Alarm Limits"1 as nonstatutory subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. We reverse.

The Invention

The invention relates to a process for controlling at least...

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