Appeal No. 1996-2413
Application No. 08/120,194
dried mass consisting essentially of freeze dried ingredients
of the entire leaf of a plant belonging to the genus Aloe.
Further details of this appealed subject matter are set forth
in representative independent claim 1 which reads as follows:
1. A vacuum freeze-dried mass made by homogenizing an
entire leaf of a plant belonging to the genus Aloe of the
family Liliaceae to produce a crushed Aloe liquid and then
freeze-drying said crushed Aloe liquid in a vacuum to produce
said vacuum freeze-dried mass, said mass consisting
essentially of freeze dried ingredients of said entire leaf.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness:
Tovey 4,493,822 Jan. 15, 1985
McAnalley 4,966,892 Oct. 30, 1990
Grossman et al. 4,976,960 Dec. 11, 1990
(Grossman)
Dennis et al. 5,137,730 Aug. 11, 1992
(Dennis) (filed May 28, 1991)
Hanada 40012390 Jun. 17, 1965
(Japanese ‘390)(translation copy attached)
Marsh 693,391 May 12, 1969
(South Africa ‘391)
Marsh 1,199,887 Jul. 22, 1970
(Great Britain ‘887)
Kobayashi et al. 60109526 Jun. 15, 1985
(Japanese ‘526)(translation copy attached)
On the record before us, claims 1, 2 and 12 are rejected
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