Application of Bloomer

GARRETT, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the rejection by the Primary Examiner of four claims numbered 16, 17, 18, and 19 in appellant’s application for patent relating “to the refining of fatty acids and particularly to an improved method of obtaining fractions of fatty acids having different characteristics.” No claim was deemed allowable by the tribunals of the Patent Office.

In the brief and at the hearing before us it was moved on behalf of appellant to dismiss the appeal as to claims 16 (which was quoted…