Application of Friedrich Gruschwitz and Albert Fritz

About a year and a half ago this court unanimously found two very general reasons of appeal sufficient to comply with 35 U.S.C. § 142, over Patent Office protest.1 Three claims were under rejection as unpatentable over four references. We said:

“The ‘Reasons of Appeal’ in appellant’s notice of appeal to this court are that the Board of Appeals erred (1) in rejecting claims 22, 23 and 24 on the Sollmann, Benzel, Cowen and Connell patents and (2) in not allowing claims 22, 23 and 24.”

The bar was advised of the procedural “law” represented by this decision in an accurate headnote reading, “Notice…