Legal Opinion
In re Best
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided October 13, 1977No. Patent Appeal No. 77-509PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
Appeal from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals (board) sustaining rejections of claims 1-7 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 or 35 U.S.C. § 103, and claims 3-7 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, of appellants’ application serial No. 347,216, filed April 2, 1973, for “Catalyst for Hydrocarbon Conversion Processes and Process for Preparing Same.”1 We affirm.
The Invention
The invention relates to zeolitic molecular sieve catalyst compositions useful in hydrocarbon conversion and to a process for producing them. Claim 1 is illustrative of the product claims:
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2Cases cited6 opinions
- Application of Carl F. Swinehart and Marko SfiligojCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1971
- In re PearsonCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1974
- In re BrownCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1972
- In re LudtkeCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1971
- In re BlondelCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1974
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3Cited by18 opinions
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- In Re Donald H. ThorpeCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1985
- In Re Laszlo Marosi, Joachim Stabenow, and Matthias SchwarzmannCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1983
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