Appeal No. 1996-0906
Application No. 08/110,341
1. A method for modifying surfaces to facilitate oil removal, consisting
essentially of:
selecting a surface to be modified;
immobilizing a lipase onto the surface, the lipase being isolatable
from a Pseudomonas organism.
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Butler2 4,006,059 Feb. 1, 1977
Matsuo et al. (Matsuo) 4,472,503 Sep. 18, 1984
Thom et al. (Thom ‘291) 4,707,291 Nov. 17, 1987
Clark 4,909,962 Mar. 20, 1990
European Patent Applications:
Thom et al. (Thom ‘390) 0 206 390 Dec. 30, 1986
Wiersema et al. (Wiersema) 0 268 456 May 25, 1988
Wiersema et al.3 (Wiersema ‘487) 0 253 487 Jan. 20, 1988
and 8 in response to new grounds of rejection (specifically the Butler in view of
Thom and Matsuo series) set forth in the Answer. The amendments were entered
by the examiner, and noted in the Supplemental Examiner’s Answer. The
amendment is noted in the reproduction of claim 1 herein.
2 Butler is newly added in the Answer.
3 We note the examiner withdrew Wiersema ‘487 from the prior art rejection as
cumulative, in the Answer.
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