In re Joliot

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, dated July 31, 1958, affirming the rejection of claims 5, 6 and 8, all the claims remaining in appellant’s application for a patent, Serial No. 666,183, filed April 30, 1946, relating to “Improvements in and Relating to the Production of Energy through Nuclear Fission.” Priority, based on an application filed in France on April 30, 1940, is claimed under the Boykin Act (Public Law 690, 79th Congress).

Claims 6 and 8, illustrative of the appealed claims, appear as follows:

6. A method for the…