Legal Opinion
Application of Myer Freed
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided May 14, 1970No. Patent Appeal 8215PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BALDWIN, Judge.
Freed appeals from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals which sustained the examiner’s rejection of the claims in his application 1 as unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. 103.
THE INVENTION
Three of the four claims on appeal define the invention as a method of producing calcium pantothenate “consisting of reacting in a single reaction step and under substantially anhydrous conditions, beta alanine, pantoyl lactone and calcium carbide.” Calcium pantothenate, according to appellant
is old and well known to the art. It is usually prepared as an intermediate in the pathway for…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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