APPLICATION OF RAINER

Patent Appeal No. 7429.

347 F.2d 574 (1965)

Application of William C. RAINER, Edward M. Redding, Joseph J. Hitov, Arthur W. Sloan and William D. Stewart.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

July 1, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin Guttag, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

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

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


SMITH, Judge.

The relatively simple legal issues in this appeal are constantly in danger of being obscured by the plethora of chemical terms and nomenclature in appellants' disclosure and claims. On the other hand, however, their application1 bears the deceptively straightforward but rather meaningless title "Polyethylene."

The precise grounds of the rejections appear to be 1) that the appealed claims are not supported by the disclosure...

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