Legal Opinion
Application of John Nicholson Gardner, Anthony Maitland Roe and George Lawrence Willey
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided June 25, 1970No. Patent Appeal 8311PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Acting Chief Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals, adhered to on reconsideration, affirming the rejection of claims 1-5, all claims of application serial No. 369,591, filed May 22, 1964, for “Antidepressant Compositions and Methods of Producing Antidepressant Activity.”
The Invention
Claims 1 and 2 are directed to pharmaceutical compositions “having antidepressant activity” and claims 3-5 are directed to a “method of producing antidepressant activity which comprises internally administering” certain compounds. No claim makes any mention of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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