In re Scharf

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the decision of the Primary Examiner rejecting all of the claims (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 9) in appellant’s application for a patent for an alleged invention relating to a product comprising soybean lecithin (soybean phosphatide), in an amount not less than 20%, and a substance rich in vitamin B complex, and a process of making the same.

Claims 1 and 3 are sufficiently illústrative of the appealed claims. They read:

1. A product containing commercial soybean lecithin and a substance rich in…