Appeal No. 96-2341
Application 08/389,554
advanced by appellants and the examiner and agree with
appellants that the aforementioned rejections are not well
founded. Accordingly, we do not sustain these rejections.
Rejection over Munro
Munro discloses a substantially non-aqueous liquid or
pasty gelatinous detergent composition which is capable of
acting as a scouring agent when in concentrated form, but
which acts as a
water-soluble dish washing composition or as a non-abrasive
hard surface cleaner when in aqueous solution (col. 1, lines
5-11). By “substantially non-aqueous”, Munro means that the
composition “contains not more than about 5% water, apart from
that present as water of crystallization” (col. 1, line 67 -
col. 2, line 2). Munro’s disclosed (col. 3, line 46 - col. 4,
line 2) suitable concentrations of 1) non-aqueous, water-
miscible liquid medium (col. 3, lines 7-18), which corresponds
to appellants’ water-miscible organic liquid (specification,
page 3, line 4 - page 4, line 2), 2) suspending agent (col. 3,
4
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