Ex parte HUNTER et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 1997-1604                                                        
          Application No. 08/273,688                                                  


               This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection               
          of claims 1 through 18 which are all of the claims remaining                
          in the application.                                                         
               The subject matter on appeal relates to a method for                   
          preparing a pourable, concentrated polymer/emulsifying                      
          surfactant/hydrophobic liquid composition by removing some                  
          portion of hydrophobic liquid from a starting composition in a              
          first centrifuge, thereby producing the aforementioned                      
          pourable composition.  The subject matter also relates to the               
          pourable composition itself.  This subject matter is                        
          adequately illustrated by independent method claims 1 and 17                
          and independent composition claims 12 and 18.  A copy of these              
          claims taken from the appellants’ brief is appended to this                 
          decision.                                                                   
               The following references are relied upon by the examiner               
          in the rejections before us:                                                

          Krijnen et al. (Krijnen)           4,803,264                Feb.            
          7, 1989                                                                     
          Mallya et al. (Mallya)        4,944,888                Jul. 31,             
          1990                                                                        
          Scanley                       5,155,156                Oct. 13,             
          1992                                                                        


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