Legal Opinion
In re Boesch
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided March 13, 1980No. Appeal No. 79-597PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Judge.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) Board of Appeals (“board”) which sustained the examiner’s rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 of appellants’ claims 1 1 and 8-15 in view of Lamb2 and Pohlman3 et al. We affirm.
Invention
The invention embraces nickel base alloys consisting essentially of:
Metals Percentage Ranges
aluminum 4.0 - 4.7
boron 0.005 - 0.03
carbon 0.0 - 0.18
chromium 13.7 - 15.3
cobalt 14.2 - 19.0
iron 0.0 . - 4.0
molybdenum 3.8 - 4.8
titanium 3.0 - 3.7
The remainder of the alloys comprises nickel and incidental impurities. The elements in…
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