Case Name: In re Finley
Court: United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1949-04-12
Citations: 36 C.C.P.A. 1005
Docket Number: No. 5571
Parties: In re Finley
Judges: Before Gabeett, Chief Judge, and Hatfield, Jackson, O’Connell, and Johnson, Associate Judges
Reporter: Court of Customs and Patent Appeals Reports
Volume: 36
Pages: 1005–1006

Head Matter:
174 F. (2d) 135; 81 USPQ 387
In re Finley
(No. 5571)
United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals,
April 12, 1949
Pennie, Edmonds, Morton and Barrows (Louis D. Forward, Clarence M. Fisher, and Bryce Beecher of counsel) for appellant.
W. W. Cochran (J. Schimmel of counsel) for the Commissioner of Patents.
[Oral argument March 8, 1949, by Mr. Forward and Mr. Schimmel]
Before Gabeett, Chief Judge, and Hatfield, Jackson, O’Connell, and Johnson, Associate Judges

Opinion:
GtAEREtt, Chief Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claim involved in this appeal reads:
1. As a composition of matter, 2 ethyl butyl salicylate.
It was rejected by a Primary Examiner in the United States Patent Office, his rejection was affirmed by the Board of Appeals, and by this appeal we are called upon to review the decision of the board.
The claim is based upon application, serial No. 409,842, which in essentials is similar to application, serial No. 409,840, which involved a claim reading: "1. As a composition of matter, 2 ethyl hexyl salicylate." See In re Finley, 36 C. C. P. A. (Patents) 998, 174 F. (2d) 130, 81 USPQ 383. The record here is similar in every material respect to the record in that case. The same is true of the briefs for the respective parties. Before us the cases were argued together. All that is said in our opinion in that case is equally applicable in this case, and there is nothing which it is deemed necessary to add here.
For the reasons stated in that case the decision of the Board of Appeals is affirmed.