Appeal No. 1997-0674
Application No. 08/214,971
No. 12) for the reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
the Appellants’ Brief (Paper No. 11), for the arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
The objective of the appellants’ invention is to provide
a waste treatment method and system that incorporate the ease
of conventional waste containers combined with secure, safe
disposal (specification, page 3). In furtherance of this,
method claim 1 sets forth the steps of providing a rigid
container having disposed therein a liner of sufficient
rigidity that it is self-supporting in the absence of the
rigid container and being substantially impermeable to liquids
and substantially resistant to chemical degradation, placing
waste material in the liner through an opening, sealing the
liner by forming a substantially liquid impermeable seal over
the opening thereby encapsulating the waste material in the
liner, and removing the liner from the rigid container prior
to disposal of the liner containing the waste material.
Independent system claim 16 contains similar limitations. On
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