Appeal No. 2000-0023 Application 08/967,856 examiner's refusal to allow claims 4 through 6, 8 and 9. Claim 7, the only other claim remaining in this application, has been indicated to be allowable by the examiner in Paper Number 7. In Paper Number 5, the examiner gave reasons for his conclusion that the subject matter of claim 7 was allowable. THE INVENTION The appealed subject matter is directed to a method for preserving wood or a composite wood material which comprises treating the wood or the composite wood material with a fungicidally or bactericidally effective amount of one of a family of compounds generically defined as 3-aryl-5,6-dihydro- 1,4,2-oxathiazine or oxides of said oxathiazines. Claim 4 is believed to be adequately representative of the appealed subject matter and is reproduced below for a more facile understanding of the claimed invention. 4. A method for preserving wood or a composite wood material which comprises treating the wood or the composite wood material with a fungicidally or bactericidally effective amount of a compound of the formula 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007