Appeal No. 96-3172
Application No. 08/328,335
a highly branched oxoalcohol. Wood '933, column 3, lines 6 to 13,
expresses a preference for linear (straight chain) C -C alcohols
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and further notes that his invention may be practiced with a
secondary or tertiary alkanol. Such a secondary or tertiary C -C
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alcohol as taught by Wood '933 would not be highly branched. As
noted by appellants on page 7 of their brief,
oxoalcohols are made from petroleum
feedstocks and consequently are branched
alcohols which produced by conventional
means result in the alcohol being 40% to
50% branched, as is evidenced by Exhibit
B earlier submitted herein. As a result,
oxoalcohols are substantially more branched
than fatty alcohols and are different.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
REVERSED
Michael Sofocleous )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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Marc L. Caroff ) BOARD OF PATENT
Administrative Patent Judge ) APPEALS AND
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