Appeal No. 95-0578
Application 07/843,834
references in the proposed manner to arrive at the claimed
invention without recourse to the teachings in appellant’s
disclosure. See generally In re Fine, 837 F.2d 1071, 1074-1076,
5 USPQ2d 1596, 1598-1600 (Fed. Cir. 1988); In re Dow Chemical,
837 F.2d 469, 473, 5 USPQ2d 1529, 1531-32 (Fed. Cir. 1988).
On the record before us we find no direction to use wash
water which is essentially free of dioxins or dioxin precursors
in the amount of between about 2 and about 4 tons per ton of pulp
to establish a consistency of the pulp at between about 15% and
about 40% as specified in appealed claim 1 except for the
disclosure in appellant’s specification.
The examiner’s decision is reversed.
Reversed
JOHN D. SMITH )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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CHARLES F. WARREN ) BOARD OF PATENT
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