Patenting your work claims

Suppose that you worked at the U.S. Patent Office and a patent application came across your desk claiming that a newly developed catalyst was much superior to the Haber catalyst for ammonia synthesis because the catalyst led to much greater equilibrium conversion of N2 and H2 into NH3 than the Haber catalyst under the same conditions. What would be your response ... 

In addition, in a liquid crystalline conference in 1995, FUJIFILM announced the WV film, but there was another company that announced a similar technique at the same time. FUJIFILM claimed that those rights were related to the patent application date after all. However, it may be said that FUJIFILM and our joint development were strangely lucky after all. It is often said that technical inventions and discoveries occur multiple times during the same period, and I really experienced this. I was also able to experience the importance of intellectual property that the difference among some of the filing dates impact on technical enforcement. A few years later, one person who worked for one of the companies which refused the request for film development said to me, At that time, I think that what was necessary was just to have obeyed your request. ... 

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