Appeal No. 1996-1813 Application No. 08/117,453 The examiner cited the following references in the rejection of the claims: Harte et al. 3,792,272 February 12, 1974 (Harte) Dawes 4,612,291 September 16, 1986 Inman, Jr. et al. 4,733,965 March 29, 1988 (Inman) Maggard 4,963,745 October 16, 1990 (Maggard ‘745) Maggard WO 91/15762 October 17, 1991 (Maggard WO‘762) Maggard et al. 5,145,785 September 8, 1992 (Maggard ‘785) Howard Mark et al., Advances in near Infrared Analyzer Technology, Chemical Processing, February 1991, pp. 54-58. (Mark) The examiner entered the following rejections: Claims 1-8 and 16-18 have been rejected as unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over either Maggard WO‘762 or Maggard ‘785 in combination with Inman. Claims 9-15 have been rejected as unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over either Maggard WO‘762 or Maggard ‘785 in combination with Inman and Dawes. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007