Case Name: In re Prutton et al.
Court: United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1946-06-11
Citations: 33 C.C.P.A. 1217
Docket Number: No. 5156
Parties: In re Prutton et al.
Judges: Before Gaebett, Presiding Judge, and Bland, Hatfield, Jackson, and O’Connell, Associate Judges
Reporter: Court of Customs and Patent Appeals Reports
Volume: 33
Pages: 1217–1218

Head Matter:
70 USPQ 196; 156 F. (2d) 91
In re Prutton et al.
(No. 5156)
United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals,
June 11, 1946
Oherlin, Limbaoh & Day for appellants.
W. W. Cochran (D. L. Reynolds of counsel) for the Commissioner of Patents.
[Oral argument March 11, 1946, by Mr. Limbach and Mr. Reynolds]
Before Gaebett, Presiding Judge, and Bland, Hatfield, Jackson, and O’Connell, Associate Judges

Opinion:
BlaND, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This appeal is a companion appeal to Patent Appeal No. 5157, handed down concurrently herewith. Both cases were briefed in one brief by the appellants and in separate briefs by the Solicitor for the Patent Office. The records are substantially* identical and the references relied upon are the same in the two cases.
The claims in both cases are very similar except that the present claims are broader in that they call merely for an "organic halogen compound" instead of a halogenated hydrocarbon.
The claims are obviously not patentable if the claims in the companion case are not patentable, as we have held, and appellants do not insist that the claims in the instant application are allowable if certain claims in the companion appeal are not allowed.
For the reasons stated in our decision in the said companion appeal,, the decision of the Board of Appeals in the instant case is affirmed'.
GakRett, Presiding Judge, sat during the arguments of this case, but because of illness took no part in its consideration or in the decision.