Appeal No. 1997-0151
Application 08/169,542
heating of baked goods. Claim 40 is illustrative and reads as
follows:
40. A method of increasing a rate of a browning reaction
in food during heating thereof to produce a baked good, which
comprises heating said food under an atmosphere consisting
essentially of argon, neon, krypton or xenon or a mixture
thereof at a pressure of up to about 3 atm.
THE REFERENCES
Segall 3,677,024 Jul. 18,
1972
Strobel et al. (Strobel) 4,971,813 Nov. 20,
1990
McKenna et al. (McKenna) 5,021,251 Jun. 4,
1991
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 23, 25, 31-33 and 36-40 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 over appellant’s admitted prior art taken
together with Segall, and also over McKenna taken together
with Strobel, appellant’s admitted prior art and Segall.
Claim 36 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly
point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which
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