Appeal 96-0460
Application 08/150,303
The appeal is from a decision of the Primary Examiner
rejecting claims 1-22. We reverse.
A. Findings of fact
The record supports the following findings by a
preponderance of the evidence.
1. Claims 1-22 are on appeal.
2. Claim 1, which is believed to be representative
of the claims on appeal, reads as follows (paragraph
numbering, bold and indentation added):
A process for hydrocracking naphtha, said process
comprising contacting a naphtha feed with a hydrocracking
catalyst under sufficient hydrocracking conditions, said
hydrocracking catalyst comprising
(1) a hydrogenation/dehydrogenation catalytic
component and
(2) an acidic solid catalytic component
comprising a Group IVB metal oxide modified with an
oxyanion of a Group VIB metal.
3. According to the specification (page 4,
lines 24-30; bold added):
[T]he expression, Group IVB metal oxide modified with an
oxyanion of a Group VIB metal, is intended to connote a
material comprising, by elemental analysis, a Group IVB
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