Appeal No. 1996-0684
Application No. 08/116,550
which is the only other claim remaining in the application,
stands allowed.
Claim 1 is representative:
1. A process for fluorinating a halogenated hydrocarbon
consisting essentially of reacting a halogenated hydrocarbon
with hydrogen fluoride in the presence of a fluorination
catalyst which comprises a partially fluorinated chromium
oxide containing from 0.01-10% by mole, based on the amount of
chromium oxide, of at least one metal selected from the group
consisting of ruthenium and platinum.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Manzer 5,051,537 Sep. 24, 1991
Ohsaka 2,030,981 Apr. 16, 1980
(British patent application)
The issue presented for review is whether the examiner
erred in rejecting claims 1 through 3, 5 through 8, and 10
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the combined
disclosures of Manzer and Ohsaka.
DISCUSSION
In rejecting appellants' claims, the examiner proposes
combining the ruthenium catalyst of Manzer with the partially
fluorinated chromium oxide catalyst of Ohsaka to form "a mixed
catalyst" containing both ruthenium and partially fluorinated
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