In re Winnek

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the examiner’s rejection of a claim- of appellant’s application for patent relating to sulfonamide derivatives. Five claims stand allowed. The appealed claim reads:

23. A compound of the group consisting of those represented by the formula

in which X is a radical of the group consisting of H and carboxylic acid acyl radicals.

Two of the allowed claims are process claims and three are for the product. Because of the nature of appellant’s argument we here quote allowed claims 19 and 21:

*94719. A…