Appeal No. 95-2830 Application No. 07/967,617 illustrative and a copy of which taken from the appellants' Brief is appended to this decision. The examiner has relied upon the following references to support the rejections: Pedrazzi 5,122,605 Jun. 16, 1992 Yokogawa et al. 5,478,936 Dec. 26, 1995 (Yokogawa) (filed Aug. 7, 1991) Sumimoto Chem Co. 0 472 975 Mar. 4, 1992 (EP '975) THE REJECTIONS The examiner's Final Rejection dated February 25, 1994 is directed to five separate and distinct rejections of record. The first two are directed to the rejection of claims 11 and 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Yokogawa(CA 118:8311C) in view of EP '975, Pedrazzi or Smith and the2 rejection of claims 1, 5 through 9, 11 and 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Ridyard in view of EP '975, Pedrazzi or Smith. Neither of these rejections has been maintained by the examiner in the Examiner's Answer. 2This Yokogawa reference as opposed to the Yokogawa patent (5,478,936) is a Chemical Abstracts citation, 118:8311C 04/08/92. The Chemical Abstracts reference is no longer relied upon by the examiner in the Examiner's Answer. 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007