Appeal No. 1997-0527
Application No. 08/380,255
This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection
of claims 1 through 17 and 32 through 42 which are all of the
claims remaining in the application.2
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method for
making a reduced fat nut butter product comprising the steps
of combining from about 30% to about 75% of a nut paste with
from about 15% to about 45% of one or more water-soluble, non-
fat dry solid, intimately mixing the combination by passing it
through an extruder mixer and then homogenizing the mixture.
This appealed subject matter is adequately represented by
independent claim 1
which reads as follows:
1. A method for making a reduced fat nut butter product
comprising the steps of:
(a) combining
from about 30% to about 75% of a nut paste,
from about 15% to about 45% of one or more water-
soluble, non-fat dry solid,
from about 0% to about 10% of an added edible oil,
from about 0% to about 30% of at least one water-
insoluble non-fat dry solid, and
2In claim 11, “the stabilizer” lacks antecedent basis.
This informality should be corrected in any further
prosecution that may occur.
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