In re Kelley

This appeal is from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming final rejection by the Primary Examiner of claims 17, 19, 20, and 23 to 28, inclusive, of appellant’s application, No. 76,079, for a patent on an air conditioning system. Claim 28 was rejected as being drawn to a non-elected species, while the remaining claims on appeal were held to be unpatentable over the prior art. Pour claims were allowed.

■ Claims 17, 24, and 25, representative of the appealed claims, are as follows:

17. In apparatus utilizing a water solution of hygroscopic material to…