The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 28
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
____________
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
____________
Ex parte CLAUS WEISEMANN, WOLFGANG KREISS,
HANS-GEORG RAST and GUNTHER EBERZ
____________
Appeal No. 1997-3898
Application No. 08/116,3821
____________
HEARD: November 16, 2000
____________
Before ROBINSON, SPIEGEL, and SCHEINER, Administrative Patent Judges.
SPIEGEL, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 8 through 17, which are all of the claims pending in this application.
Claim 8 is illustrative and reads as follows.
8. An analytic process for testing for the presence of toxic
components in a mixture of components, said process comprising
separating said mixture into separate components by chromatography in a
chromatographic system, directly contacting a separated component with a
1Application for patent filed September 2, 1993.
Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007