Application of Chester John Cavallito and Allan Poe Gray

WORLEY, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the rejection by the Primary Examiner of claims 1 and 2 of appellants’ application for a patent on Bis-Quaternary Ammonium Substituted Alkanes. No prior art was cited, the rejection being based on the ground of undue breadth. Since the portions of the two appealed claims on which that rejection is based are identical, it will be sufficient to reproduce claim 1 which is as follows:

“1. An a u) -bis-(quaternary-ammonium) -substituted alkane salt, wherein the alkane portion of…