EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY v. COE

No. 8170.

135 F.2d 836 (1943)

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Appellant, v. Conway P. COE, Commissioner of Patents.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 14, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Daniel I. Mayne, of Rochester, N. Y., with whom Messrs. Clarence M. Fisher, of Washington, D. C., and Newton M. Perrins, of Rochester, N. Y., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Clarence W. Moore, of Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. W. W. Cochran, Solicitor, United States Patent Office, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before MILLER, VINSON, and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.


PER CURIAM.

In our opinion, the District Court correctly found that appellant was not entitled to a patent upon the claims in issue in this case, in view of the prior art. The Patent Office recognized the patentability of the process claims, the operative character of which has made the disputed compounds commercially available. But that the compounds themselves, and their usefulness for the purposes claimed by appellant, had been disclosed by the references upon...

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