Appeal No. 1996-1813
Application No. 08/117,453
presented separate arguments for claims 2-8 and 16-18. Thus,
claims 2-8 and 16-18, all of which depend from claim 1, will
stand or fall with the patentability of claim 1.
37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7).
We affirm the rejection of claims 1-8 and 16-18 for
reasons presented below.
Maggard WO’762 describes a process for the determination
of PIANO aromatics (paraffins, aromatics, isoparafins,
naphthenes and olefins) and alpha olefins constituents in
complex mixtures, such as gasoline, by near infrared
spectroscopy. (Page 4, lines 5-9 and 21-24). Instrument
calibration is said to be accomplished by performing analysis
on known samples to determine the weighting constants or
equivalents. For example, octane measurement is said to be
obtained by determining absorbance for known samples at
wavelengths within each of the specific bands for each of the
PIANO components. (Page 7, lines 18 to page 8, line 12). The
absorbance measured is subject to analysis for the
determination of weighting constants. The process is
subsequently repeated for unknown samples. (Page 8, line 13-
16). Examples 1, 3 and 4 describe the use of calibration sets
which comprise 50 samples. (Page 11, lines 10-14, page 14,
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