Ex parte MCKIERNAN et al. - Page 9




          Appeal No. 2000-1230                                                        
          Application No. 08/717,904                                                  


               Appellants’ argument at page 10 of the brief that the                  
          rejection of claim 13 is improper is not understood, in view                
          of the fact that the limitations which claim 13 adds to parent              
          claim 1 are those which appellants have disclosed as being                  
          conventional.  The argument that one of ordinary skill would                
          not have found it obvious to apply the valve of Kinsey to a                 
          plastic tank is not convincing.  While the vessel or tank C to              
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