Appeal No. 1998-1146 Page 3
Application No. 08/410,177
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Comelli et al. (Comelli), "Liquid Phase Excess Enthalpies for
the Binary Systems of 1,3-Dioxolane with n-Pentane, 3-
Methylpentane, or Methylcyclopentane," J. Chem. Eng. Data.,
35, 283-84 (1990).
Inglese et al. (Inglese), "Thermodynamics of binary mixtures
containing cyclic ethers 2. Excess enthalpies of oxolane,
1,3-dioxolane, oxane, 1, 3-dioxane, and 1, 4-dioxane with
cycloalkanes," J. Chem. Thermodynamics, 12, 1047-1050 (1980).
Claims 1, 2, 4-6 and 8-10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph as being indefinite for failing to
particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter
which applicant regards as the invention. Claims 1, 2, 5 and
9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as anticipated by
Comelli. Claims 1 and 2 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102
as anticipated by Inglese.
Since appellants do not argue any of the claims
separately as they are grouped with respect to each of the
above-noted grounds of rejection (brief, page 3), our focus
here is primarily limited to the application of each separate
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