In re Antonie
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
BALDWIN, Judge.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals (board) affirming the rejection of claims 1, 2 and 3 of an application for “Rotating Biological Contactor Apparatus”1 as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in view of El-Naggar.2 We reverse.
The Invention
Appellant claims a wastewater treatment device in which wastewater is continuously passed through a tank. Semi-immersed contactors (disks) are continuously rotated to aerate their immersed portions and thereby to aerate both microorganisms that grow on the contactors and the wastewater itself.…
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- In re SaetherCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1974
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