In re Freeman

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. 5, 6, 7, and 8, in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to a.coating composition.

Claims 5 and 6, which are typical of the rejected claims, read:

5. A coating composition comprising the extract phase of a natural un-polymerized glyceride oil obtained by liquid phase extraction with a selective organic polar solvent of a natural unpolymerized glyceride oil comprising a mixture of…