Application of Charles R. Barr

RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 23-30 and 32-35 in appellants’ application entitled “Photographic Elements and Processes Utilizing Mercaptan-Forming Couplers,” serial No. 507, 975, filed June 14, 1965, a division of application serial No. 270, 709, filed April 4, 1963, which matured into patent No. 3,227,554 on January 4, 1966. The appealed claims, all of which are for photographic color couplers, were “rejected as failing to define the invention properly, under 35 U.S.C. 112 * * *.” Claim 36, for…