Appeal No. 96-1808
Application 08/204,119
for movement relative to the vessel and paddle therein. The
Schneider ‘657 thermostat (6) appears to be fixed in place
(figure 1; col. 2, lines 52-56).
Accordingly, we conclude that the examiner has not
carried his burden of establishing a prima facie case of
obviousness of the apparatus recited in appellants’ claims 34-
37.
Claims 49 and 50
Appellants’ claim 49, and claim 50 which depends
therefrom, require a fill means which is capable of
automatically injecting a liquid media into the vessel, a
sample means which is capable of automatically withdrawing a
liquid sample from the vessel in situ, and a wash means which
is capable of automatically introducing a cleaning liquid into
each vessel in situ.
The examiner considers the Schneider ‘716 rinsing
nozzles (18) to be both the fill means and the wash means
(answer, pages 4 and 10). The examiner, however, has not
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