RUSKIN v. COE

Civil Action No. 19084.

58 F.Supp. 424 (1945)

RUSKIN v. COE, Com'r of Patents.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

January 10, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl Fenning, of Washington, D. C., and Lackenbach & Hirschman, of New York City, for plaintiff.

W. W. Cochran, Sol., U. S. Patent Office, of Washington, D. C., for defendant.


BAILEY, Justice.

The plaintiff is seeking a patent on a calcium salt of laevo-ascorbic acid for use as a therapeutical agent. This salt is old and using it as a medical preparation is not invention. However, the plaintiff is also claiming a patent on this salt mixed with an anti-oxidation stabilizing agent. By the use of this combination he has rendered this calcium salt, which was not before apparently of any use, a useful therapeutical agent. I think, therefore...

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