Application of Robert Duva

SMITH, Judge.

The sole issue to be determined in this appeal is whether the invention as a whole as claimed in the appealed claims of appellant’s application 1 would have been obvious at the time it was made. The examiner based the rejection on 35 U.S.C. § 103 and this rejection was affirmed by the Patent Office Board of Appeals. 2

While the appealed claims are couched in terms of “composition” and “process,” it is appellant’s basic position that all of the appealed claims relate to a single invention, i. e., the chemical, as distinguished from the electrolytic, deposition of gold plate on what…