Application of Fred N. Hill

WORLEY, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the Primary Examiner’s rejection of claims 1-5 and 7-12, all of the claims in appellant’s application for a patent entitled “Catalyst and Method for the Production of Ethylene Oxide” on the ground that the claims are unpatentable over certain prior art.

Claims 1, 7, and 12 are representative of the appealed claims and read:

“1. Process for preparing an active silver catalyst effective for the oxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide which comprises forming an aqueous…