APPLICATION OF AUSTIN

Patent Appeal No. 7617.

360 F.2d 660 (1966)

Application of Chester R. AUSTIN, John Marshall Bertram, Edward J. Prince and Joseph K. Stone, Jr.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

May 19, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Toomey, Bruno J. Verbeck, Chicago, Ill. (Harold L. Jenkins, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellants.

Joseph Schimmel, Washington, D. C. (S. Wm. Cochran, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Commissioner of Patents.

Before RICH, Acting C. J., MARTIN, SMITH, and ALMOND, Judges, and Judge WILLIAM H. KIRKPATRICK.


MARTIN, Judge.

This appeal is from a decision of the Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of claims 7, 8, 9 and 11 of appellants' application1 entitled "Method of Producing Steel," as unpatentable over certain prior art. No claim is allowed.

The invention is directed to a process for the conversion of iron to steel. An open-topped converter is charged with solid ferrous metal and solid carbonaceous fuel, after which a lance...

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