Application of Manuel F. Leonor

395 F.2d 801

Application of Manuel F. LEONOR.

Patent Appeal No. 7912.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

June 6, 1968.

Michael Ebert, New York City, for appellant.

Joseph Schimmel, Washington, D. C. (Jack E. Armore, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Commissioner of Patents.

Before WORLEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, SMITH, ALMOND and KIRKPATRICK*, Judges.

SMITH, Judge.

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The Patent Office Board of Appeals affirmed the examiner's rejection of claims 15-18 in appellant's application1 for "Carbonization of Bagasse" upon what appears to us to have been a hindsight reconstruction of the prior…