In re Baranauckas

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the final rejection by the Primary Examiner of the two product claims of appellants’ application No. 242,432 for patent on an allegedly new chemical compound and a process for producing it. The process claims of the application were allowed by the examiner.

The appealed claims are as follows:

21. A compound selected from the group consisting of 1,2,3,4-tetraehloro-cyclopentadiene-1,3 and a l,2,3,4-tetrachlorocyelopentadiene-l,3 wherein a ring chlorine atom has been replaced by a…