Normann v. Schmidt

This is an appeal in an interference proceeding from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming a decision of the Examiner of Interferences awarding priority of invention to appellee with respect to the four counts of the interference. Count 1 is illustrative and reads as follows:

1. The process of preparing alcohols comprising subjecting a higher aliphatic carboxylic acid having more than five carbon atoms to a high temperature and pressure adapted to reduce acids to alcohols in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrogenating catalyst until reduction of the…