Appeal No. 1997-1604
Application No. 08/273,688
This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection
of claims 1 through 18 which are all of the claims remaining
in the application.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method for
preparing a pourable, concentrated polymer/emulsifying
surfactant/hydrophobic liquid composition by removing some
portion of hydrophobic liquid from a starting composition in a
first centrifuge, thereby producing the aforementioned
pourable composition. The subject matter also relates to the
pourable composition itself. This subject matter is
adequately illustrated by independent method claims 1 and 17
and independent composition claims 12 and 18. A copy of these
claims taken from the appellants’ brief is appended to this
decision.
The following references are relied upon by the examiner
in the rejections before us:
Krijnen et al. (Krijnen) 4,803,264 Feb.
7, 1989
Mallya et al. (Mallya) 4,944,888 Jul. 31,
1990
Scanley 5,155,156 Oct. 13,
1992
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