Appeal No. 95-3233
Application No. 08/094,477
dispute the examiner's factual determination that Brady
discloses the claimed process of producing polypropylene with
the exception of not disclosing the claimed Reynolds number
for the combined feed of catalyst precursor and propylene.
Brady does teach that the cocatalyst can be introduced into
the reaction zone while suspended in a stream of liquefied
monomer, such as propylene (column 10, lines 51-54), but Brady
is silent with respect to the Reynolds number for the
cocatalyst/monomer feed. However, since appellants contend
that the claimed Reynolds number results in low average resin
particle sizes and high resin bulk densities, and Brady
discloses at column 12, lines 12-23, an average particle size
and bulk density that essentially correspond to the values
disclosed in appellants' specification examples, we find it
reasonable to conclude that Brady employs a sufficiently high
Reynolds number to obtain the desired average particle size
and bulk density, i.e., a Reynolds number substantially as
claimed. In re Best, 562 F.2d 1252, 195 USPQ 430 (CCPA 1977).
While we find it unfortunate that appellants have not
simplified the issues on appeal by making of record the actual
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