APPLICATION OF GRUNWELL

Appeal No. 79-572.

609 F.2d 486 (1979)

In the Matter of the Application of Joyce F. GRUNWELL and Vladimir Petrow.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

November 15, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Stein, Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney of record for appellants; Sidney W. Russell, Arlington, Va., of counsel.

Joseph F. Nakamura, Washington, D.C., for the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks; Henry W. Tarring, II, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, RICH, BALDWIN and MILLER, Judges, and WATSON, Judge.


RICH, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Board of Appeals (board) affirming the rejection of claims 1-5 in appellants' application, serial No. 461,011, filed April 15, 1974, for "Androst-4-en-19-ols," under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious from the teachings of the prior art references. We affirm the rejection of claims 1 and 5. We reverse the rejection of claims 2-4.

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