Appeal No. 2000-0018
Application No. 08/860,941
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
follows: claims 1-3, 5, 7, 8, 10-15 and 20-22 over Watson in
view of Kasturi and over these references further in view of
Chapple; and claim 6 over Watson in view of Kasturi, Chapple
and Svendsen.
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejections.
The appellants state that the claims stand or fall in
three groups: 1) claims 1-3, 5, 7, 8, 10-14 and 20-22, 2)
claim 15, and 3) claim 6 (brief, page 3). We therefore limit
our discussion to claims 6, 15 and one claim from the other
group, i.e., claim 1. See In re Ochiai, 71 F.3d 1565, 1566
n.2, 37 USPQ2d 1127, 1129 n.2 (Fed. Cir. 1995); 37 CFR
§ 1.192(c)(7)(1997).
Rejections of claim 1 over Watson in view of Kasturi
and over these references further in view of Chapple
Watson discloses a detergent composition which can
contain 1) a builder which can be zeolite MAP (col. 9, line
35) which, the appellants acknowledge (specification, page 1),
was known in the art to preferably have a particle size,
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