Appeal No. 1997-0674
Application No. 08/214,971
claims of record in this application.
The appellants’ invention is directed to a method of
encapsulating waste material for safe disposal thereof (claims
1-15) and to a waste encapsulation system (claim 16). The
claims before us on appeal have been reproduced in an appendix
to the Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Stein et al. (Stein) 4,886,164 Dec. 12,
1989
Gallo et al. (Gallo) 5,186,351 Feb. 16,
1993
Mains et al. (Mains) 5,196,132 Mar. 23,
1993
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Stein in view of Gallo and Mains.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner’s full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejection and the
conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellants regarding the rejection, we make reference to the
final rejection (Paper No. 9) and the Examiner’s Answer (Paper
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