Application of Renato Rogerio Carreira Reynaud

SMITH, Judge.

Appellant’s application Serial No. 849,-059, filed October 27, 1959, discloses a union for pipe lines in general as well as for pipes of cement, fiber-cement, plastics, metal or the like. The present appeal involves claim 5, the only claim remaining in the application. While the examiner and the board rejected the claim for various reasons, we think the rejection based on 35 U.S.C. § 103 is determinative and shall consider only this ground.

Rejected claim 5 reads on this structure and describes the asserted invention, as will be seen from the following reproduction of the claim…