District Court, District of Columbia June 4, 1941, Civil Action No. 6078 (Eastman Kodak Co. v. Coe)

BAILEY, District Judge.

The chief ground upon which the Board of Appeals of the Patent Office denied the allowance of the claim sought by the plaintiff was that the product claimed was anticipated by an article described in a publication written by Kónig. Kónig gave a general formula for certain dye stuffs as follows:

He also stated that instead of Y a cycloseleno group might occur.