Appeal No. 94-2818
Application 07/834,771
1993 (Paper No. 10). These are the only claims in this2
application.
According to appellants, the invention is directed to a
method and apparatus for waste degradation (brief, paragraph
bridging pages 1 and 2). This degradation is accomplished by
metering a liquid culture medium from a bag through a feed
line into the waste material, where the liquid culture medium
is formed by adding water to the concentrated organisms which
are stored in the bag (Id.).
Appellants state that all the claims are ?grouped
together?, i.e., the claims stand or fall together (brief,
page 8). Therefore this decision will be decided on the basis
of claim 1, which is an independent claim and is illustrative
of the subject matter on appeal. See 37 CFR §
1.192(c)(5)(1993), now 37 CFR
§ 1.192(c)(7)(1995). Claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method for treating a waste material to
degrade the waste material, which comprises:
2 This amendment was entered as noted in the advisory action dated Sept. 14,
1993 (Paper No. 11). An earlier amendment dated July 7, 1993 (Paper No. 7), subsequent
to the final rejection, was refused entry as noted in the advisory action dated July 23,
1993 (Paper No. 8).
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