Application of Charles D. Prater and James Wei
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals 1 affirming the rejection by the examiner of all claims of appellants’ application. 2
The issues involved relate to an invention against which no prior art has been cited. The rejections of the process and apparatus claims are solely based upon considerations of law and statutory construction. . ■
The invention is concerned with spec-trographic analysis and is intended to facilitate the provision of accurate data on the relative proportions of various known constituent gases in a mixture of gases. In performing…
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