Ex parte HUTCHINS et al. - Page 12

                 Appeal No. 96-1808                                                                                                                     
                 Application 08/204,119                                                                                                                 


                 failing                                                                                                                                
                 to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject                                                                             
                 matter                                                                                                                                 




                 which appellants regard as their invention, are reversed.3                                                                             
                                                                    REVERSED                                                                            





                                            EDWARD C. KIMLIN                                      )                                                     
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                          3Smolen, which was relied upon by the examiner (answer,                                                                       
                 page 6) for a suggestion of injecting a pH adjustment solution                                                                         
                 into the vessel as recited in some of the dependent claims,                                                                            
                 does not remedy any of the deficiencies of the previously-                                                                             
                 discussed references as to the independent claims.                                                                                     
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