Appeal No. 2000-0018
Application No. 08/860,941
148 USPQ 507, 510 (CCPA 1966). As discussed above, the
disclosure of Kasturi as a whole would have fairly suggested
the composition recited in the appellants’ claim 1 to one of
ordinary skill in the art.
For the above reasons we conclude that the prima facie
case of obviousness of the composition recited in the
appellants’ claim 1 has not been effectively rebutted by the
appellants. Accordingly, we affirm the rejections of this
claim.
Rejections of claim 15 over Watson in view of Kasturi
and over these references further in view of Chapple
Claim 15, which depends from claim 1, recites that the
composition is in liquid form and has a pH of from 6.5 to
10.5.
Watson’s composition can be in liquid form (col. 25,
lines 46-47; col. 26, line 16) and preferably is formulated
such that, during aqueous cleaning operations, the wash water
has a pH of about 6.5 to about 12, preferably between about
7.5 and 11 (col. 26, lines 26-29). This teaching would have
fairly suggested, to one of ordinary skill in the art, making
a detergent composition based upon either the combined
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