In re McConnell

This case presents an appeal from a decision of the Board of Appeals of the Patent Office wherein the board modified a decision of the examiner rejecting all. claims, and allowed claims 1 and 3 of appellant’s application. Eighteen claims were rejected'by the boaixl and the appeal to us involves four of these, viz, Hos. 8, 16, 17, and 19.

*1140The claimed invention relates to the recovery of nicotine from tobacco. Claim 8 involves a process and reads as follows:

8. The process of recovering' nicotine from tobacco material, which comprises driving off free nicotine in vapor form, together with aqueous…