Appeal No. 96-2058
Application No. 08/147,090
therein and the proximal ends are located above said
groundwater and/or wastewater;
introducing a purging gas under at least atmospheric
pressure into the proximal ends of said conduits, each of said
conduits having a small diameter chosen so that said gas will
form a large volume of small bubbles as it flows from the
distal ends thereof, said bubbles serving to remove said
hydrocarbon contaminants from said groundwater and/or
wastewater as they travel upward to the surface area of said
groundwater and/or wastewater; and
removing the contaminated gases from the surface area of
said groundwater and/or wastewater.
The references relied upon by the examiner in the
rejections
before us are:
Ely et al. 4,765,902 Aug. 23, 1988
(Ely)
Gorelick et al. 5,180,503 Jan. 19, 1993
(Gorelick)
Claims 28 through 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(e) as being anticipated by Gorelick.
The remaining claims on appeal stand variously rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Gorelick or
Gorelick in view of Ely.
As a preliminary matter, we observe that the claims on
appeal will stand or fall together; see page 5 of the brief
and 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(1995).
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