Appeal No. 96-2059
Application No. 08/182,869
(column 1, lines 43-48) by adding to the composition, inter alia,
zeolite compounds, i.e., crystalline alkali or alkaline earth
metal aluminosilicates. That the reference refers to a “wide
variety of compositions” and the term “compositions” is broad
enough to include “detergents” (answer, page 4), is inadequate to
teach or suggest the processing of a solid cleaning product as
claimed by appellants, especially since the only exemplified
application of Thorsrud’s process involves polymer processing.
Joshi merely discloses a conventional tableting pressure
technique for forming detergent tablets. Accordingly, we agree
with appellants that the examiner has failed to identify any
persuasive reasons which would have motivated one of ordinary
skill in the art to combine the teachings of the relied upon
references. Moreover, Thorsrud contains no disclosure of
irradating a bed of particles to form a macrosolid as called for
in the specifically limited appealed claims. Accordingly, even
if the teachings of the references were combined in the manner
proposed by the examiner, it is not apparent that one would
arrive at the claimed subject matter, and DiSalvo and Wevers do
not remedy the basic deficiencies in the examiner’s principal
rejection.
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