Application of Basil Vivian Aller, Richard Norman Lacey, Reginald Harold Hall

COLE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, affirming the rejection by the Primary Examiner of appellants’ application for a patent, Serial No. 45,326, filed August 20, 1948, for “Decomposition of Organic Peroxides.” Of the original sixteen claims, claims 11-14 have been withdrawn, and no claims have been allowed, all having been denied as unpatentable over a reference specifically acknowledged in the application as prior art, as hereinafter discussed.

The rejection was made upon an article appearing in the Journal of the German…