Legal Opinion
In re Storrs
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided June 17, 1957No. 6280PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, Chief Judge
This is an appeal from a decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals, rejecting method claims 7, 8, 12, 14, 16, 38-44, 46 and 47 as not supported by adequate disclosure in appellant’s application serial No. 54,748, filed October 15, 1948, for “Destructive Distillation of Substances and Recovery of Decomposition Products.” Each of the method claims, except claim 12, as well as each of apparatus claims 22, 48 and 50, was also rejected by the board as unpatentable over the prior art.- Seven apparatus claims stand allowed.
The following claims are representative of those on appeal :
38. A method…
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