APPLICATION OF MANSON

Patent Appeal No. 7140.

333 F.2d 234 (1964)

Application of Andrew John MANSON.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

June 25, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence & Laurence, Washington, D. C. (Dean Laurence, John L. White, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellant.

Clarence W. Moore, Washington, D. C. (Joseph Schimmel, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for the Commissioner of Patents.

Before WORLEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, MARTIN, SMITH, and ALMOND, Judges.


SMITH, Judge.

The single legal issue presented by this appeal is whether an applicant for a patent on a new process for making a known compound must establish a utility for such compound, in order to satisfy the requirements of Rule 204(b) preparatory to having an interference declared between his application and a prior patent.

It is unnecessary to encumber this opinion with any of the technical details of the process covered by appealed...

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