In re Hartung

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming that of the Primary Examiner rejecting, for want of patentable distinction over an interference issue, claims 1, 3, 5, and 26 of an application for a patent for new and useful improvements in alkyl catechols. The rejected claims are for alleged new products. Six method claims were allowed.

The rejected claims read as follows:

1. As new products, alkyl catechols with more than three -and not more than eight carbon atoms in the side chain.

3. As new products, compounds of the class consisting…