Legal Opinion
Application of Jacques Georges Pottier
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided April 27, 1967No. Patent Appeal 7790PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Judge.
This appeal is from a decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 3, 9, 10, 12, and 13 in application serial No. 145,731, filed October 17, 1961, for “Process for Modifying the Biochemical Characteristics of Plants by Cold Shock.” No claim has been allowed.
The invention is a process in which hydrated plantlets are subjected to extreme cold for a few seconds. Claim 9 is illustrative:
9. A method of dwarfing sugar beets by cold shock, characterized by thoroughly hydrating a germinating sugar beet plant and then subjecting it to a…
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