In re Young

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office, affirming the Primary Examiner’s requirement of division between a group consisting of two claims for a composition of matter (defined as a copper-chromium mixed oxides hydrogenation catalyst), on the one hand, and, on the other hand, a group of seven claims for an alleged improvement in a process for making phenyl methyl carbinol, one of the steps of which is the use of the catalyst so described.

The article claims which appellant elected to prosecute were finally allowed by the examiner. They are…