Appeal No. 96-0852
Application 08/116,581
rejection in papers filed on October 7, 1994 (Paper No. 18) and June 1, 1995 (Paper No. 25). Claims
2 through 6, 10, 11 and 13 have been canceled.
Appellants’ invention relates to a process gas chromatographic system. Independent claims 1
and 9 are representative of the subject matter on appeal and a substantially correct copy of those
claims may be found in the Appendix to appellants’ brief. Claim 1, as seen in the Appendix, was
amended by Paper No. 25, filed June 1, 1995, to change “inlet” (second occurrence) in line 62 thereof
to -- vent --.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims
are:
Claudy 3,069,894 Dec. 25, 1962
Tinklepaugh et al. (Tinklepaugh) 3,910,765 Oct. 7, 1975
Lamazou et al. (Lamazou) 430,278 Feb. 15, 1967
(Swiss Patent Application)
In addition to the foregoing references, the examiner has also relied upon Admitted Prior Art
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