Application of Stanley G. Halley

MARTIN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office which affirmed the examiner’s rejection of claims 7, 8 and 9, all of the claims of appellant’s application for a patent on “Sustained Action Pharmaceutical Tablets.” The application was filed July I, 1955.

Claim 7 is illustrative and is as follows:

“7. A sustained action pharmaceutical tablet containing an active pharmaceutical ingredient and being constituted by a tabletted intimate and substantially uniform admixture of groups of granules, each granule of each group of granules…