MATTER OF APPLICATION OF BRADLEY

Appeal No. 79-533.

600 F.2d 807 (1979)

In the Matter of the Application of John J. BRADLEY and Benjamin S. Franklin.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

July 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas Prasinos, Waltham, Mass., attorney of record, for appellants; Ronald T. Reiling, Faith F. Driscoll, Waltham, Mass., of counsel.

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

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, RICH, BALDWIN, and MILLER, Judges, and COWEN, Senior Judge.


RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals (board) affirming the rejection of claims 1-6, all of the claims in appellants' application serial No. 570,331, filed April 21, 1975, for "Switch System Base Mechanism," as being drawn to subject matter which is non-statutory under 35 U.S.C. § 101. We reverse.

The Invention

Appellants' invention is in the field of computer technology...

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