Application of William C. Anthony
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
BALDWIN, Judge.
This appeal is from a decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejections of claims 1-12 1 “for lack of utility under 35 U.S.C. 101” and of claims 1-6, 11, and 12 as obvious under 25 U.S.C. § 103 in view of certain prior art.
The invention relates to particular chemical compounds, the d- and 1- isomers of a-ethyltryptamine (hereafter denoted by its generic name, etrypta-mine) ; therapeutic compositions containing certain amounts of one of the two pure isomers or their racemic mixture in combination with a pharmaceutical carrier; and methods of…
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