Thomas v. Michael

Name

Thomas v. Michael

Cite

166 F.2d 944

Year

1948

Bluebook cite

Thomas v. Michael, 166 F.2d 944 (C.C.P.A. 1948).

Author

URL

166 F.2d 944

Item Type

case

Summary

Decision reversing the result of an interference proceeding. The invention at issue related to “a process for producing a silica-alumina composite catalyst” which “defined a novel process for producing an old and well-known silica-alumina composite catalyst.” The Board of Interference Examiners awarded priority to appellees Michael et al., “based on the ground that the utility of the catalyst produced by appellants was not known at the time it was prepared.” The issue on appeal was whether the utility of that product was or was not know in the art at that time. The court, concluding from the facts that the utility of the catalyst produced by the process in question was known in the art and known to the appellants, held that “the decision of the board requiring a test of the catalyst to effect its reduction to practice was manifestly wrong.”

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