Court of Customs and Patent Appeals February 19, 1970, Patent Appeal 8249 (In the Matter of the Application of Reedus R. Estes)

LANE, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals which affirmed the rejection of all 14 claims in appellant’s patent application serial No. 212,467 for “Amylose Solutions,” filed July 25, 1962. We reverse the board’s decision.

The invention here is a process of preparing amylose ethers. Claim 1 is illustrative :

1.