Appeal No. 96-4152
Application 08/177,391
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 11-18, all the claim in the application.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a particulate trap for
collecting and removing particulates such as carbon contained
in
exhaust gas discharged from a diesel engine. Independent
claim 11, a copy of which is found in an appendix to
appellants’ brief, is illustrative of the appealed subject
matter.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
support of rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Davis 2,220,641 Nov. 5, 1940
Roeser et al 3,892,536 Jul. 1, 1975
Bly et al 4,276,066 Jun. 30, 1981
Hammond, Jr. et al 4,390,355 Jun. 28, 1983
Ishida et al 4,548,625 Oct. 22, 1985
Stanton 4,629,483 Dec. 16, 1986
Stobbe 5,195,319 Mar. 23, 1993
Bloom et al 5,258,164 Nov. 2, 1993
Claims 11 to 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, "as being indefinite for failing to
particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter
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