Legal Opinion
In Re Jean Pierre Lalu and Louis Foulletier
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 2, 1984No. Appeal 83-1358PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDWIN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Board of Appeals (board) affirming the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 of claims 13-22, all of the claims of appellants’ application Serial No. 966,508, filed December 4, 1978, for “New Polyfluorinated Sulphonic Acids And Their Derivatives”. We reverse.
The Invention
The invention relates to perfluoroalkyl sulfonyl chlorides and bromides having the formula:
CnF2n + 1(CH2)bS02Z
wherein the perfluoroalkyl group CnF2n +1 is defined by n being a number between 1 and 20, Z is a chlorine or bromine…
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