In re Carothers

This is an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming that of the Primary Examiner rejecting as unpatentable claims 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 to 12 inclusive, and 14 of an application for a patent alleging new and useful improvements in a Process for Dyeing Synthetic Fiber-Forming Linear Polymeric Amides. Certain other claims were drawn to nonelected species and are not before us.

The involved claims are for a process and the resulting* product. The product depends entirely upon the process and therefore it is not necessary to treat the claims in separate…