Appeal No. 1998-1493
Application No. 08/377,861
We reach the opposite result, however, with regard to
method claims 8-10. At the outset, we take note of the fact
that the examiner and the appellant have grouped these claims
with apparatus claims 1-7, and the appellant has failed to
separately argue with any reasonable specificity their
patentability over the applied prior art.
Independent claim 8 is directed to a "method of
controlling carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions from a
rich-burn small internal combustion engine." With regard to
this language, it is our view that all three of the references
applied against claim 8
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