Legal Opinion
In re Mattox
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided June 15, 1972No. 8723PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Bich, Actmg Ghief Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of claims 1-19 in appellants’ application serial No. 469,895, filed July 6, 1965, as a continuation-in-part of their application serial No. 168,548, filed January 24, 1962. We affirm.
The Subject Matter Claimed
Appellants claim certain hydrocarbon cracking processes employing “dual-exchanged,” crystalline, aluminosilicate zeolites as catalysts. The word “dual-exchanged” means that the zeolites, or “molecular sieves,” used in these processes have had most of their initial…
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