Ex parte SATO et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 1997-0158                                                        
          Application No. 08/026,581                                                  


          Group I - Claims 1, 18, 20 and 22; and                                      
          Group II - Claims 17, 19, 21 and 23.                                        
          However, appellants have not supplied any substantive                       
          arguments for the separate patentability of claims 17, 19, 21               
          and 23 in accordance with 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)and(c)(8)(iv)                 
          (1995).  See Brief in its entirety.  Therefore, we decide this              
          appeal as to the ground of rejection on the basis of claim 1                
          alone, which is reproduced below:                                           
          1.   A                                         method for                   
          preparing                                      a ciso-lefin of              
          the                                            following general            
          formula                                        (2):                         








               wherein R  and R  are independently selected from the1     2                                                       
          group consisting of an ester group, substituted silyl group,                
          carboxyl group, cyano group, aliphatic hydrocarbon group                    
          having 1 to 20 carbon atoms unsubstituted or substituted with               
          at least one hydroxy group, and phenyl group unsubstituted or               
          substituted with at least one hydroxy group, said method                    
          comprising the step of reducing an alkyne of the following                  
          general formula (1):                                                        



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