HOOKER ELECTROCHEMICAL CO. v. WATSON

Civ. A. No. 2342-52.

135 F.Supp. 275 (1954)

HOOKER ELECTROCHEMICAL CO., Plaintiff, v. Robert C. WATSON, Commissioner of Patents, Defendant.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

February 25, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean Laurence, Jackson, Miss., John S. Roberts, Jr., Percy H. Moore, James B. VanderKelen, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

E. L. Reynolds, Washington, D. C., for defendant.


LETTS, District Judge.

Essentially the sole reason assigned by defendant for refusing the patent is that, as he sees it, the claims sought define subject matter that is not inventively different from that disclosed in the British patent to Burrage et al., 573,693, dated December 3, 1945, for the reason that the distinction relates to the amount of solvent employed in dissolving the crude hexachlorocyclohexane mixture, and that the selection of the amount to

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