In re Seebach

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, affirming a decision of the examiner rejecting claims 17 to 22, inclusive, of appellant’s application for patent as not patentably distinct from certain counts of an interference, which are claims of another application of appellant, of which the application before us is a division. No claims were allowed.

Claims 17 and 22 are illustrative of the claims before us and read as follows:

17. Method of preparing molded objects from a phenol-aldehyde resin of the heat-hardenable type and an air-drying fatty…