Court Opinion

ID: 9451386
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:16:40.767781+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:43.136050
License: Public Domain

ALMOND, Judge
(concurring), with whom MARTIN, Judge, joins.
The prior art does not suggest the property, 'in qualitative sense, exhibited by the claimed compounds. It follows, of course, that the relative activity, i. e., the quantitative aspect, of the property is not suggested either. Thus, I do not find a consideration of the quantitative aspect of the property to be necessary to a conclusion in this case. On the basis of unexpectedness of property alone, I agree with the reversal here.
The factors which compel me to that view are: Nowhere in the Beasley abstract is it mentioned that any of the compounds therein disclosed have pharmacological activity of any sort, let alone anticonvulsant activity. The fact that the Beasley article is reported in the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology certainly does not warrant the conclusion that the compounds therein disclosed have pharmacological activity. Nor, in my view, does the fact that mephenesin is an anticonvulsant provide any basis for a finding that the ortho-chloro compound of Beasley has anti-convulsant activity. As for the Lunsford patent, which discloses ■ 5-o-methoxyphenoxy-2-oxazolidone as having anticonvulsant properties, there is nothing in the patent or any reference of record to indicate that substitution of a chlorine atom for the methoxy group would provide a compound having anticonvulsant properties.