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APPLICATION OF FOURNET

Patent Appeal No. 7587.

357 F.2d 392 (1966)

Application of Andre FOURNET, Rene Victor, Julien Achard and Pierre Lafont.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

March 17, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald G. Welsh, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

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

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

SMITH, Judge.

The issue here is whether the invention defined in the seven appealed claims,1 a chemical process, is obvious within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. § 103.

The appealed claims define a process for the production of cyclododecanone and cyclododecanol. The broadest claim on appeal, claim 1, defines a process "which comprises oxidizing cyclododecane in the liquid phase with molecular oxygen at a temperature of 90°...

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