Legal Opinion
Application of Franz Ackermann
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided July 8, 1971No. Patent Appeal 8518PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDWIN, Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals, adhered to on reconsideration, sustaining the rejection of the single claim in appellants’ application 1 as unpatentable in view of the prior art under 35 U.S.C. § 103 and on the ground of res judicata.
THE INVENTION
The sole claim on appeal is as follows:
1. A crystalline product of manufacture consisting of pure a :(3 — di—[5— methyl-benzoxazolyl-(2)] - ethylene, said product existing in the form of fine yellowish needles, and melting at 183 to 184° C, showing in ethanol solution extinction maxima at the…
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