Appeal No. 96-0088
Application No. 08/038,426
claimed subject matter is clearly disclosed by patentee at
column 6, lines 36-45. Appellants argue that the catalysts
are carried in the air into the combustion chamber and thus
are not even gasoline additives. See Brief, pages 21-22.
Appellants’ arguments are unpersuasive. Claim 1 requires only
a gasoline additive. When the gasoline and additive are
mixed, or even if they are mixed, is irrelevant to the
“gasoline additive” claimed subject matter. As for claims 16
and 23, we find that the disclosure at column 6, lines 23-26,
which mixes the air, fuel and catalyst in the manifold to
produce a homogenous blend of the catalyst with the fuel and
air, meets both the requirements of the fuel composition of
claim 16 and the limitation of “dissolving at least a portion
of said additive in gasoline” and “feeding the gasoline having
said additive dissolved therein to the internal combustion
engine,” as required by claim 23. Based upon these findings,3
3 Hackh’s Chemical Dictionary, defines solution as,“the
mixing of a solid, liquid or gaseous substance (solute) with a
liquid (the solvent), forming a homogenous mixture....”
Julius Grant ed., McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, fourth
edition, page 624, 1972.
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