In re Krauch

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, affirming the decision of the examiner in refusing to allow claims 7, 8, and 9 of an application relating to an invention of a process of manufacturing organic compounds.

Applicants have described the invention in the following language:

This inveutiou has as its object to produce substantial amounts of the said oxygenated organic compounds other.than methanol. We have found that such oxygen derivatives, which are partly readily soluble in water, partly insoluble or difficultly soluble and of a more…