Appeal No. 1997-3170
Application No. 08/330,597
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the combined disclosures
of either Corring or Chun, and Gandolfo; and
4) Claims 1, 7 through 14, 29 and 35 through 49 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the combined disclosures
of Suzuki and Gandolfo.
We have carefully reviewed the claims, specification, and
applied prior art, including all of the arguments advanced by
both the examiner and appellant in support of their respective
positions. This review leads us to conclude that the
examiner’s § 103 rejections are not well founded.
Accordingly, we will not sustain the examiner’s § 103
rejections for essentially those reasons set forth in the
Brief. We add the following primarily for emphasis and
completeness.
The claimed subject matter is directed to a food grade
rinse aid composition in solid and liquid form. See claims 1
and 29. The food grade rinse composition consists essentially
of a particular sorbitan fatty acid mono ester, a particular
defoamer, and an aqueous diluent. Id. This composition must
be capable of displaying adequate sheeting properties during
the rinse cycle of mechanical warewashing.
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