Legal Opinion
In re Rinehart
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided March 11, 1976No. Patent Appeal No. 75-608PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent and Trademark Office Board of Appeals (board) affirming the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1 through 9, which are all the claims in appellant’s (Rinehart’s) application serial No. 130,743, filed April 2, 19711 entitled “Process for Preparing Resin.” We reverse.
The Invention
Commercial scale quantities of polymeric ethylene terephthalate (PET) are produced in either a batch or continuous process by heating a dicarboxylic acid with glycol in the presence of a preformed low molecular weight polyester solvent2 under…
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