Legal Opinion
In re Glass
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided February 28, 1974No. Patent Appeal No. 9077PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of all claims remaining in application serial No. 664,879 filed August 31, 1967, entitled “Whiskers.” We affirm.
The Invention
The term “whiskers” is the technical name for long, needle-like, linear crystals grown artifically from the vapor phase of such crystal-producing materials as aluminum oxide, silicon nitride,
*1229graphite, boron, sapphire, etc.1 The appealed claims are directed to both apparatus and method. The whiskers are said to have very high strength and according to one…
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