In re Normann

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting all of the claims (Nos. 1, 2, 7, 14 to 17, inclusive, 20, 25, and 27) in appellants’ application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to the production of higher aliphatic alcohols.

Claims 1, 2,17, 20, and 27 are sufficiently illustrative of the appealed claims. They read:

1. The process of preparing alcohols comprising reducing a fresh higher aliphatic carboxylic acid having more than five carbon atoms by subjecting the same to…