Appeal No. 1997-2960
Application 08/368,897
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Bliley in view of Mattson.
OPINION
We have carefully considered all of the arguments
advanced by appellant and the examiner and agree with
appellant that the aforementioned rejection is not well
founded. Accordingly, we reverse this rejection.
Bliley discloses a process for preparing a precooked
frozen food package where the food includes a starchy food and
a condiment or sauce (col. 1, lines 15-21). In this process,
“the starchy food and the condiment or sauce portion are
separately prepared and cooked. The sauce portion is then
placed in a hermetically sealable package and it is frozen.
After the sauce portion is frozen, the starchy food is
superposed on the frozen sauce so as to fill the package. The
entire package may then be frozen and hermetically sealed”
(col. 2, lines 13-19).
The examiner relies upon only the “Background of the
Invention” section of Mattson (answer, page 7). This section
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