Legal Opinion
Application of Levin
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided December 12, 1949No. Patent Appeal 5625PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’CONNELL, Judge.
■ This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting claims 1-10 in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to an improved food product and a method of making it.
Claims 1-5 and claim 10 are for the product and claims 6-9 for the method. Claims 3, 4, 6, and 9 are illustrative and read as follows:
“3. A butter substitute food product comprising an emulsion of oil-in-water type having water as its continuous phase and a dispersed phase comprising…
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