APPLICATION OF ANTONIE

Patent Appeal No. 76-681.

559 F.2d 618 (1977)

Application of Ronald L. ANTONIE.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

Decided August 18, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur H. Seidel, Thomas W. Ehrmann, Milwaukee, Wis. (Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, Wis.), attorneys of record, for appellant.

Joseph F. Nakamura, Washington, D. C., for the Commissioner of Patents, R. D. Edmonds, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, RICH, BALDWIN and MILLER, Judges, and HERBERT N. MALETZ, Judge, United States Customs Court.


BALDWIN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals (board) affirming the rejection of claims 1, 2 and 3 of an application for "Rotating Biological Contactor Apparatus"1 as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in view of El-Naggar.2 We reverse.

The Invention

Appellant claims a wastewater treatment device in which wastewater is continuously...

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