Appeal No. 1996-3162
Application 08/227,897
Before CALVERT, PATE and McQUADE, Administrative Patent
Judges.
CALVERT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1 to 16, all the claims remaining in the application.
The claims on appeal are drawn to a method for
gasifying solid organic materials, and are reproduced in the
appendix of appellants' brief.2
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Boutillier 835,847 Nov. 13, 1906
Evans 1,267,646 May 28, 1918
Yamazaki et al. (Yamazaki) 2,088,679 Aug. 3, 1937
Schrage 2,344,328 Mar. 14, 1944
Söderlund et al. (Söderlund) 2,678,615 May 18, 1954
Caughey 4,030,895 June 21, 1977
Virr 4,465,022 Aug. 14, 1984
Payne 4,531,462 July 30, 1985
The appealed claims stand finally rejected as
follows:
2On page 2 of the answer, the examiner notes errors in
the copy of claims 13 and 16 in the appendix. All references
herein to appellants' brief are to the brief filed on November
20, 1995.
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