Appeal No. 1997-2099
Application No. 08/233,468
provided motivation for the formation of an absorbent composition containing the
weight ratio of zinc bromide to lithium bromide to be from about 1.6 to about 1.9, as
required by claim 1. In the absence of sufficient factual evidence or scientific rationale
on the part of the Examiner to establish why and how a skilled artisan would have arrived
at the subject matter of claim 1 from the applied references, we find that the Examiner
has failed to meet the initial burden of establishing the prima facie obviousness of the
claimed subject matter. Accordingly, we are constrained to reverse the Examiner*s
rejection of claims 1 to 10, 17 and 18.
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