Appeal No. 95-2746
Application 07/887,394
29, which are all of the claims in the application.2
THE INVENTION
The invention is drawn to a gas phase adsorption process
wherein a pitch-based oxidized activated carbon fiber having a
specific surface area of 200 to 2500 m /g, oxygen containing2
functional groups and an oxygen content of about 3 to about
18% by weight based on the weight of the fiber is contacted
with a gas phase containing water vapor or basic gas such as
ammonia to adsorb the water vapor or basic gas. Claim 15 is
illustrative and reads as follows:
15. In a gas phase adsorption process in which a gas
phase containing water vapor or a basic gas is brought into
2 The Notice of Appeal refers to the decision February 10, 1994 of the
Primary Examiner finally rejecting Figures 5-7. The date of the final
rejection is December 30, 1993, not February 10, 1994. The examiner's Advisory
Action was mailed on February 7, 1994, and presumably received by appellants
on February 10, 1994. Entry of a proposed drawing correction for Figures
5-7, improperly referred to in the Notice of Appeal, a procedural matter,
was properly resolved by petition. The Final Rejection, Paper No. 29, dated
December 30, 1993, the examiner's Advisory Action, Paper No. 31, dated
February 7, 1994, Appellants' Brief, Paper No. 37, dated May 26, 1994, and
the Examiner's Answer, Paper No. 38, dated July 18, 1994, maintained and
addressed respectively the rejection of claims 15-29. Since the record before
us, including a properly filed Appeal Brief was directed throughout to claims
15-29, it appears that any error present was harmless. Accordingly, the
substantive rejections of claims 15-29 are before us for consideration.
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