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- 7Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007