Legal Opinion
Application of Borcherdt
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided June 24, 1952No. Patent Appeal 5892PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WORLEY, Judge.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming that of the Primary Examiner finally rejecting all of the claims, 4 to 12, inclusive, of an application of appellants, serial No. 768,648, filed August 14, 1947, entitled “For Synthesis of Organic Nitriles.” Claims 6 and 7 were further rejected as failing to read on the elected species.
Claim 4 is illustrative of the involved subject matter and reads as follows:
“4. A process for the preparation of organic nitriles having a double bond between carbon atoms, one of which is singly…
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