Appeal No. 1996-3871
Application No. 08/354,747
This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection
of product claims 44 through 51. The only other claims
remaining in
the application, which are process claims 1, 3, 8, 9, 11
through 13, 32 through 39 and 41 through 43, have been allowed
by the examiner.
The subject matter on appeal relates to the product
produced by the process defined in certain of the
aforementioned allowed claims.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the
examiner in the section 102 and section 103 rejections before
us on this appeal:
Sorensen 4,790,995 Dec. 13,
1988
Aung et al. (Aung) 5,227,183 Jul. 13,
1993
(filed Jul. 25, 1991)
Copson, “Microwave Heating In Freeze-Drying, Electronic Ovens,
and Other Applications,” The AVI Publishing Company, Inc., pp.
249-250, 1962.
All of the claims on appeal stand rejected under 35
U.S.C.
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