Appeal No. 95-4743
Application No. 08/066,773
in the examiner's Answer. As noted by the examiner, the claim
expression "organic cation derived from a naturally occurring
oil residue substantially similar to the naturally occurring
oil to be thickened", to the extent it may be considered
meaningful at all, broadly encompasses tallow derivatives or
derivatives of any other of the several naturally occurring
oils disclosed in Finlayson (column 2, line 56 - column 3,
line 13) and Maguaran (column 5, lines 16-37). With regard to
claim 1, we also note that the recitation of certain base oil
systems in the claim preamble, as a statement of intended use,
does not represent a significant limitation on the scope of
the composition claim.
We also agree with the examiner that the evidence of
nonobviousness relied upon by appellant (specification: page
13, Table 1; Nae Declaration) is unpersuasive essentially for3
the reasons set forth in the examiner's Answer.
3We also note that the Nae Declaration is informal in
that it has not been properly executed in accordance with 37
CFR
§ 1.68.
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