Appeal No. 95-3484
Application 08/098,236
1500-4000 (answer, page 9). This argument is based on an
incorrect reading of Stearns, which discloses molecular
weights of 300-4000 (col. 5, lines 13-16; col. 6, lines 55-
57).
We note that there is a difference between the number
average molecular weights in Stearns’ Examples I and II the
corresponding number average molecular weights in the
declaration. In Stearns’ Examples I and II, the molecular3,4
weights are, respectively, 706 and 453, whereas the
corresponding molecular weights in the declaration are,
respectively, 650 and 570. The reason for this discrepancy,
and whether it indicates that the values of Q and Z for
Examples I and II in the declaration are questionable, are
issues which were not raised by the examiner or appellants.
On the basis of the present record, we find, in view of the
Kinoshita declaration filed on April 21, 1983, that the Q and
Z values recited in appellants’ claims are not inherent
3 Stearns states that the molecular weights throughout the specification
are number average molecular weights (col. 3, lines 50-52).
4 The molecular weight for Stearns’ Example III is similar in Stearns
and the declaration, i.e., 1059 in Stearns (col. 13, line 73) and 1029 in the
declaration (page 2). The molecular weight for Example IV prior to
hydrocracking is not reported by Stearns.
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