Appeal No. 1997-4285 Page 15
Application No. 08/420,852
agent (i.e., hydrogen peroxide) is not added to the wastewater
in the clarifier 40 as required by claim 1 but is added to the
wastewater in mixer reactor 22. Thus, step (b) of claim 1 is
not taught by Pahmeier.
We have also reviewed the other references applied by the
examiner but find nothing therein which makes up for the
deficiency of Pahmeier discussed above.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject independent claims 1 and 9, and claims 2 to
8 and 10 dependent thereon, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
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