Court Opinion

ID: 9451255
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:11:08.857827+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:37.821070
License: Public Domain

SMITH, Judge
(dissenting).
We are not here dealing with an esoteric type of invention where operability strains the credibility of one of ordinary *400skill in the art. Rather, appellant asserts merely that the energy release of fossil fuels may be increased through the application of known scientific principles. In this concept there are no scientific mysteries. I cannot state one reason why it is not to be believed. The majority, while alluding to the “state of the art,” fails to state any reason why the process disclosed is not operable. In the absence of any such reason, I think it unreasonable to require appellant to build a plant in order to develop data to submit in support of his position. I believe one of ordinary skill in the arts most directly related to the claimed invention would find the statements in the specification to be scientifically credible and would consider the claimed invention to be operable.
I would, therefore, reverse the appealed rejection.