Application of Carl Arnold and Heinrich Brandt

MARTIN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the Patent Office affirming the Primary Examiner’s rejection of claims 18 through 28, the only remaining claims, of appellants’ application for a patent on a process for producing a welding flux product. Some question has arisen as to the sufficiency of the reasons of appeal in this case.

We shall dispose of this matter before discussing the merits of the appeal. The reasons of appeal are as follows:

1. It was error to affirm the decision of the Examiner in his rejection of claims 18 to 28.

2. It was error to refuse to…