Legal Opinion
Application of Henze
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided April 3, 1950No. Patent Appeal 5659PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Judge.
On May 15, 1944, the appellant filed an application in the United States Patent Office for a patent covering improvements in “Hydantoins and Methods of Obtaining the Same.” The subject matter of the patent application is said to be a new class of chemical compounds valuable in therapeutic use by reason of high anti-convulsant activity combined with low toxicity.
On July 16, 1946, the Primary Examiner in the Patent Office entered a final rejection of all of the claims (1, 2, and 3) in the application as lacking invention over the disclosure appearing in a 1936 scientific…
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