In re Tsoung-Yuan Yan

Lane, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Board of Appeals sustaining the rejection of all the claims, numbered 1-10, of appellant’s application for “Hydrocracking Process with Zeolite and Non-Zeolite Base Catalysts”1 as unpatentable oyer Young 2 in view of Mason3 under 35 USC103. We affirm.

The Invention

The invention relates to catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon feed (petroleum). “Cracking” is “[t]he decomposition by heat, with or without catalysis, of petroleum or heavy petroleum fractions, with production' of lower-boiling materials which are useful as motor fuels, domestic fuel…