Legal Opinion
In re Malagari
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided July 25, 1974No. Patent Appeal No. 9204PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of claims 14-21 of application serial No. 785,873, filed December 23, 1968, entitled “Method of Producing Grain Oriented Silicon Steel.” We affirm.
The Invention
Appellant claims a process for producing grain oriented silicon steel from a starting material “containing between 0.03 and 0.07% carbon.” To this allegedly critical range appellant attributes unexpected results in that the resulting steel has a higher electrical permeability and a lower core loss. Claim 14 is…
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