APPLICATION OF FENTON

Patent Appeal No. 8546.

451 F.2d 640 (1971)

Application of Donald M. FENTON.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

November 11, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Strauss, Brea, Cal., attorney of record, for appellant. Milton W. Lee, Brea, Cal., of counsel.

S. Wm. Cochran, Washington, D. C., for the Commissioner of Patents. Fred W. Sherling, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before WORLEY, Chief Judge, and RICH, ALMOND, BALDWIN, and LANE, Judges.


RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the rejection of claims 1-14 in patent application serial No. 373,878, filed June 9, 1964, for processes for the liquid-phase oxidation of hydrocarbon olefins in the presence of rhenium compounds. We affirm.

The Subject Matter Claimed

Claim 1, which is appellant's broadest claim, reads:

1. An oxidation process which comprises contacting hydrocarbon...

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