Appeal No. 1998-2941 Page 41
Application No. 08/061,985
Reexamination Control No. 90/003,682
of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was
made to have modified the method disclosed by the News &
Observer article to have utilized a continuous pasteurizing
apparatus which imparts turbulence to the liquid whole egg
product as suggested by Stadelman and/or Food in Canada
especially in view of the News & Observer article's own
suggestion to use machinery now used in egg processing for the
self-evident commercial advantages thereof.
2. Claims 16, 17, 18/16 and 19/16 are rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the News & Observer
article in view of Stadelman and/or Food in Canada as applied
above and further in view of Padley and/or the Egg
Pasteurization Manual.
Padley discloses a process for the continuous
pasteurization of liquid egg material, including liquid whole
eggs. Padley teaches (column 3, lines 30-42) to
clean/sterilize the pasteurization apparatus before passing
the liquid egg material to the pasteurization apparatus.
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