Ex parte OPGENOORTH discusses apparatus claims

The Board affirmed the Examiner in Ex parte OPGENOORTH.

 

Related to apparatus claims:

1. 11  “[E]xpressions relating the apparatus to contents thereof during an
   
2. 12  intended operation are of no significance in determining patentability of the
   
3. 13  apparatus claim.” Ex parte Thibault, 164 USPQ 666, 667 (Bd. App. 1969).
   
4. 14  Furthermore, “inclusion of the material or article worked upon by a structure
   
5. 15  being claimed does not impart patentability to the claims.” In re Otto, 312
   
6. 16  F.2d 937, 940 (CCPA 1963).