Appeal No. 1998-1493 Application No. 08/377,861 We reach the opposite result, however, with regard to method claims 8-10. At the outset, we take note of the fact that the examiner and the appellant have grouped these claims with apparatus claims 1-7, and the appellant has failed to separately argue with any reasonable specificity their patentability over the applied prior art. Independent claim 8 is directed to a "method of controlling carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions from a rich-burn small internal combustion engine." With regard to this language, it is our view that all three of the references applied against claim 8 15Page: Previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007