Appeal No. 96-0088
Application No. 08/038,426
rejection of claims 23 and 27. We find that Bowers teaches a
fuel soluble additive of the platinum group metals, which
compound, H PtCl .6H O performs all the functions and has each
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of the characteristics required by the claimed subject matter.
Appellants’ principal argument in his Brief, page 17, (also
see his specification, page 14) is that platinum hydrochloric
acid hexahydrate is “too readily soluble in gasoline.” As we
interpret the claimed subject matter, it requires only that
the “at least one compound” be directly soluble in gasoline in
a concentration of 0.01 to 10 mg/l. Clearly H PtCl .6H O is
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soluble in gasoline in these concentrations and we so find.
The fact that it is more soluble than required by the
concentration stated in the claimed subject is irrelevant to
the issue at hand. We find that the aforesaid platinum
hydrochloric acid hexahydrate, H PtCl .6H O, has all the
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requisite characteristics of the claimed subject matter. The
record before us is devoid of any statement or findings by
appellants that it would not meet the requirements of the
claimed subject matter. These findings however are not
applicable to claim 23. Bowers ‘302 does not teach a method
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