Appeal No. 1996-2215
Application No. 08/101,093
culture tank. The process requires the steps of (1) venting
some of the exhaust gas from the culture tank to maintain the
partial pressure of the carbon dioxide within a prescribed
range, (2) releasing to the atmosphere some of the vented
exhaust gas, and (3) recycling the remaining exhaust gas,
which has been vented but not released and which includes
carbon dioxide, back to the culture medium without adsorbing
carbon dioxide from such remaining exhaust gas.
C. The subject matter recited in claim 35 is directed to
a process for recycling exhaust gas, which includes carbon
dioxide and which is produced by a microbiological process
carried out in a culture medium, back into the culture medium
without adsorbing carbon dioxide from the exhaust gas, and
enriching with oxygen the exhaust gas which is recycled back
into the culture medium.
D. The rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Mori in view
of Shimizu.
1. Mori describes a process for producing L-sorbose from
sorbitol by cultivating Gluconobacter suboxydans in a “fed-
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