Appeal No. 1997-1734
Application No. 08/215,259
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 7 through 37,
which are all the claims pending in the subject application.
Claims 7 and 29 are illustrative of the claims on appeal
and are reproduced below:2
7. Apparatus comprising:
a plurality of openable sample containers each
having a corresponding fluid inlet passageway, a
corresponding space for insertion of a sample and a
corresponding fluid outlet passageway;
at least some of said plurality of sample
containers being adapted to hold a different one of
a corresponding plurality of samples;
a first transport means;
said first transport means being adapted to
carry said plurality of sample containers;
a second transport means;
programming means for causing said first
transport means to move a selected sample container
and sample to the location of said second transport
means;
a supercritical extractor;
said programming means including means for
causing said second transport means to move said
selected container and sample from the said first
transport means to a supercritical extraction means;
means for heating sample container at the place
of extraction;
2Claim 7 as it appears in the appendix to the appeal
brief is not identical to claim 7 as recited in the
“Amendment” filed July 17, 1995. We have reproduced claim 7
as recited in the “Amendment.”
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