In re Newton

The Primary Examiner of the United States Patent Office, after allowing a number of claims in appellants’ application for a patent for an invention described hereinafter, rejected claims 1, 8, 9, and 10. Upon appeal to the Board of Appeals, the decision of the examiner was affirmed, and appellants have appealed here from the decision of the board.

Claims 1 and 9 are regarded as illustrative and follow:

1. The method of producing plastic shortening products of improved creaming qualities which comprises rapidly supercooling melted shortening below its congealing point and without effecting any…