Legal Opinion
Application of George H. Hitchings, Gertrude B. Elion and Irving Goodman
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided May 6, 1965No. Patent Appeal 7221PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge.
On October 7, 1955, appellants filed in the United States Patent Office an application 1 (hereinafter “parent”) disclosing and claiming certain organic compounds and a process for making them. Shortly thereafter, in November of 1955, appellants filed a Canadian patent application containing a disclosure nearly identical to that of the parent application. The Canadian application subsequently matured into Canadian Patent No. 560,171 (hereinafter “Canadian patent”), which issued July 8, 1958. The parent application did not fare so well. In June of 1957 the examiner finally rejected…
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