Application of Raymond M. Dodson

MARTIN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of all of the claims of appellant’s application for a patent on “l-Aryl-3-Hydroxypropyl Sulfones” and a process of making them.

Appealed claims 1 through 8 are for organic compounds with varying degrees of specificity. Appealed claims 9 and 10 recite a step in a process for preparing the claimed compounds. The following claims are representative:

“1. A compound of the formula

wherein R is selected from the group consisting of methyl and phenyl radicals, R' is selected from the…