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SINCLAIR REFINING CO. v. COE

No. 8310.

138 F.2d 673 (1943)

SINCLAIR REFINING CO. v. COE, Commissioner of Patents.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided October 25, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Louis D. Forward, of New York City, of the Bar of the State of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom Messrs. Clarence M. Fisher, of Washington, D. C., and Raymond F. Adams, of New York City, were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. W. W. Cochran, Solicitor, United States Patent Office, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.

MILLER, Associate Justice.

The Smith process for which invention is claimed in this case is for the cracking of oil, i. e., for converting higher boiling oils such as gas oil and kerosene into lower boiling oils such as gasoline. The two claims selected by appellant as typical are set out in the margin.1 It contends that the process here in dispute involves novelty in the extremely rapid rate at which the oil is heated, under a pressure...

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