Legal Opinion
Application of William A. Higgins and William M. Lesuer
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided February 9, 1967No. Patent Appeal 7648PublishedCited by 4 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 1-8 of application serial No. 74,236, filed December 7, 1960, for “Phosphorodithioate Inhibitors.”
The ground of rejection is double patenting in view of appellants’ own patent No. 3,000,822 issued September 19, 1961, on an application, serial No. 635,102, filed January 22, 1957, for “Phosphoro-dithioate Inhibitors,” taken with prior art references as follows:
Freuler 2,364,283 Dec. 5, 1944
Mulvany 2,689,220 Sept. 14, 1954
Asseff et al. 2,723,236 Nov. 8, 1955
Goldsmith…
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