Appeal No. 1997-3094
Application 08/405,279
BET surface area of at least 10 m /g and consisting 2
essentially of a combination of bulk ceria having a BET
surface area of at least about 10 m /g and a bulk second metal 2
oxide selected from the class consisting of one or more of
titania, zirconia, ceria-zirconia, silica, alumina-silica and
"-alumina. [3]
THE REFERENCES
Wan et al. (Wan) 4,714,694 Dec. 22,
1987
Rudy 5,010,051 Apr. 23,
1991
Bedford et al. (Bedford) 5,081,095 Jan. 14,
1992
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
follows: claims 25-31 and 38-42 over Rudy in view of Bedford;
claims 32-37 over Rudy in view of Bedford and Wan; and claims
25-28 and 31-42 over Wan.
OPINION
We have carefully considered all of the arguments
3 “[T]he present Office practice is to insist that each
claim must be the object of a sentence starting with ‘I(or
we)claim’, ‘The invention claimed is’ (or the equivalent).”
See Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, § 608.01(m) (7th
ed., July 1998). Thus, in appellants’ claims 25 and 26, the
“comprises” transition term should be changed to “comprising”
so that the claims read as the object of a sentence.
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