Application of Alford G. Farnham, Francis N. Apel and Howard L. Bender

SMITH, Judge.

Appellants have correctly referred to the issue on this appeal as “a classical Section 103 rejection on the question of whether the differences between appellants’ invention and the prior art is [sic] such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in this art.”

The invention disclosed in appellants’ application 1 and claimed in appealed claims 1-8,10 and 11 2 relates to a process for the production of a bisphenol by the known condensation reaction between a phenol and a ketone to produce, e. g.,…