Application of James A. Dinwiddie

RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 7-12 of application serial No. 714,097, filed February 10, 1958, for “Catalytic Process.”

After the examiner’s final rejection of some of the appealed claims and others on a variety of grounds, including nine prior art patents, appellant filed an amendment cancelling some claims and substituting two of the present claims and arguing all of the rejections. Upon the examiner’s refusal to enter the amendment and refusing to alter his stand, appellant appealed to the…