Appeal No. 1999-1252
Application No. 08/648,520
The references set forth below are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness:
Corneil et al. (Corneil) 2,575,258 Nov. 13,
1951
Suggitt et al. (Suggitt) 4,013,546 Mar.
22, 1977
Cimbalo et al. (Cimbalo), “Deposited metals poison FCC
catalyst,” Oil & Gas Journal, Vol. 70, No. 20, pp. 112-122,
1979
Claims 1 through 4, 9, 10, 12 through 15, 17 through 27,
29 through 39, 42 through 52 and 54 through 71 are rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Suggitt, and
claims 11 and 53 are correspondingly rejected over Suggitt in
view of Corneil.
All of the claims on appeal are also rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Corneil in view of
Suggitt and Cimbalo.
Finally, all appealed claims are provisionally rejected
under the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting over
the claims of copending application Serial No. 08/648,236.
OPINION
Having carefully studied the record before us on this
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