Hooker Electrochemical Co. v. Watson

LETTS, District Judge.

Essentially the sole reason assigned by defendant for refusing the patent is that, as he sees it, the claims sought define subject matter that is not inventively different from that disclosed in the British patent to Burrage et al., 573,693, dated December 3, 1945, for the reason that the distinction relates to the amount of solvent employed in dissolving the crude hexachlorocyclohexane mixture, and that the selection of the amount to *276use is a matter wholly within the skill of the art and' is not invention. ' •

The court is of contrary mind and finds that plaintiff’s…