Legal Opinion
Pro-Col Corporation v. Commissioner of Patents
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 25, 1970No. 23767_1PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Per curiam
Here we are once again asked to overturn a determination by the Patent Office that an alleged invention “would have been obvious at the time [it] was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art * * *” 35 U.S.C. § 103 (1954).
Appellants seek to patent a free-flowing brown sugar having a moisture content in excess of two per cent 1 and containing from three to twelve per cent of finely divided cellulose. (J.A. 95.) A patent is also sought for the brown sugar product described above with a fatty flavoring material added. {Id.) Although the Patent Office granted appellants patents for their…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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