Application of Raymond A. Bankowski

SMITH, Judge.

Appellant has appealed from an adverse decision of the Board of Appeals which affirmed the examiner’s rejections of all ten claims in his application 1 for patent on “Avian Pneumoencephalitis Virus Vaccine and Method of Making.”

Appellant’s invention relates to a live virus vaccine for immunizing chickens against pneumoencephalitis or Newcastle disease. Appellant points out in his specification that prior vaccines containing Newcastle disease virus (abbreviated NDV), although capable of giving a relatively long lasting immunity, are not completely satisfactory because they cannot…