Appeal No. 96-3486
Application No. 08/291,565
second option” (Final Rejection, page 6).
To fully understand what Brunelle means by this
“second option,” one must refer to an earlier discussion
(column 3) of seven different techniques for preparing
the support. Each of these “actually produce” the
support. Among them is a technique ((5)) involving
atomization and calcination of an aqueous suspension of
ultrafine boehmite, pseudo-boehmite and/or amorphous
alumina. In other words, because Brunelle teaches
introducing the metals during actual production of the
support, and because atomization and calcination of an
aqueous suspension is one of the ways to actually produce
the support, it would follow, according to the examiner,
that Brunelle teaches introducing the metals into aqueous
suspension and then atomizing the result.
The examiner correctly recognizes that “Brunelle
does not teach the surface-coating of an inert ceramic or
metallic substrate with the atomized powder as applicant
now claims” (Final Rejection, page 7). In fact, while
Brunelle may suggest atomizing an aqueous suspension of
cerium and iron compounds, the suspension does not
include any of the
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