Application of Arthur H. Ahlbrecht

ALMOND, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals, adhered to on reconsideration, refusing to accord claim 7 in appellant's application 1 the benefit of an earlier filing date under 35 U.S.C. § 120 and sustaining the rejection of that claim under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as anticipated by the intervening patents to Langerak et al. 2 and Fasick et al. 3 Claims 2-6 in the application stand allowed. We affirm.

The Invention

The esters of the claim in issue may be represented by the formula:

wherein R is a member of the group consisting of hydrogen and the methyl…