Appeal No. 1997-4422
Application 08/269,797
Ahland et al. (Ahland) 4,833,877 May 30, 1989
Bissett et al. (Bissett) 5,069,685 Dec. 03,
1991
Ayala 5,188,811 Feb. 23, 1993
Brown et al. (Brown) 5,220,782 Jun. 22, 1993
Rehmat et al. (Rehmat) 5,243,922 Sep. 14, 1993
Nowitzki et al. (Nowitzki) 5,391,530 Feb. 21, 1995
Masuo Inaba et al. (Masuo)* 64-15135 Jan. 19, 1989
*Japanese reference, English translation
Krishnan et al. (Krishnan), “Study of Ammonia Removal in Coal
Gasification Processes”, SRI International, Sep. 1998.
Copperthwaite et al. (Copperthwaite), “Cobalt Chromium Oxide:
A Novel Sulphur Tolerant Water-Gas shift Catalyst”, Applied
Catalysis 63 L11-L16, 1990.
Claims 24, 26, 28-34, and 38 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Rehmat, Bissett,
Flockenhaus, Suggitt, Aldridge, Shah, Ayala, Krishnan,
Copperthwaite, Deinert, the Kimura patents, Takahashi,
Graboski, Babu, Ahland, and the admitted state of the prior
art as set forth on pages 1 and 2 of appellants’ application.
Claim 27 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Rehmat or Bissett, taken with Flockenhaus,
Suggitt, Aldridge, Shah, Ayala, Krishnan, Copperthwaite,
Deinert, the Kimura patents, Takashi, Graboski, Babu, Ahland,
and the admitted state of the prior art as set forth on pages
1 and 2 of appellants’ application as applied to claims 24,
26, 28-34 and 38 above, and further in view of Brown.
Claims 35 and 36 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Rehmat or Bissett, taken with
Flockenhaus, Suggitt, Aldridge, Shah, Ayala, Krishnan,
Copperthwaite, Deinert, the Kimura patents, Takahashi,
Graboski, Babu, Ahland, and the admitted state of the prior
art set forth on pages 1 and 2 of appellants’ application as
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