Appeal No. 1996-2566
Application No. 08/107,656
sustain this rejection of claims 19 and 21.
In summary, with the exception of the grounds of
rejection involving appealed claims 19 and 21, we do not
sustain any of the examiner’s stated rejections of the
appealed claims under the second paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112.
THE REJECTIONS FOR OBVIOUSNESS
With respect to the examiner’s stated rejections of the
appealed claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103, appellants argue at
page 16 of the brief that
Critical limitations of the
method of claim 12 which are not
present in any of the methods
described the cited prior art
references are present in steps f) and
g) of claim 12. In these steps a
solution which is formed by dissolving
solid basic aluminum chloride in
aqueous sulfuric acid is heat-treated
for 1 to 3 hours after the dissolving
at temperatures of 40 to 70E C.
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