Appeal No. 2007-0623 Page 2
Application No. 10/380,591
Vorozhtzov, “New Synthesis of o-Hydrozyazobenzene,” Zhurnal Russkago
Fiziko-Khimicheskago Obshchestva, Vol. 42, pp. 787-91 (1912), Chem Abstr. No.
6:2959.
Lindley, “Copper Assisted Nucleophilic Substitution of Aryl Halogen,”
Tetrahedron, Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 1433-1456 (1984).
GROUND OF REJECTION
Claims 1-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over the combination of Hartmann, Burgess, Vorozhtzov and Lindley.
We affirm.
CLAIM GROUPING
Appellants do not separately group or argue the claims. Accordingly, the
claims stand or fall together. Since all claims stand or fall together, we limit our
discussion to representative independent claim 1. Claims 2-11 will stand or fall
together with claim 1. 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7) (May 2004).
DISCUSSION
Claims 1-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over the combination of Hartmann, Burgess, Vorozhtzov and Lindley.
The Examiner finds claim 1 is directed to “a process of making 2-phenyl-
1,2,3-benzotriazole compounds by reacting an arylazobenzene with an azide
compound.” Answer, bridging sentence, pages 5-6. The Examiner finds
Hartmann “teach[es] a process of making 2-phenyl-naphtha [1,2-c]1,2,3-triazole
by reacting an arylazonaphthalene compound with sodium azide . . . .” Answer,
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