Ex parte RUMPH - Page 2




                 Appeal No. 1998-1215                                                                                                                   
                 Application No. 08/091,039                                                                                                             


                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           
                          This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 25                                                                       
                 to 31 and 33 to 43, all the claims remaining in the                                                                                    
                 application.                                                                                                                           
                          The appealed claims are drawn to a method of disposing of                                                                     
                 hazardous waste (claims 25 to 31, 33 to 37 and 40) and a                                                                               
                 method of transporting hazardous waste (claims 38, 39 and 41                                                                           
                 to 43).  They are reproduced in Appendix A of appellant’s                                                                              
                 brief.1                                                                                                                                

















                          1In reviewing the claims, it appears that "into a conduit                                                                     
                 . . . to an incinerator" (claim 25, lines 16 and 17) and                                                                               
                 "generally planar flat surface" (claim 38, line 19) have no                                                                            
                 antecedent basis in the specification.  37 CFR § 1.75(d)(1).                                                                           
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