Ex parte MCGINTY et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1998-3094                                                        
          Application No. 08/550,968                                                  

                    except having atmospheric boiling temperatures                    
                    of at least 100 C; halogen gases; acid halides;o                                                  
                    halocarbons that are not listed in group A;                       
                    hydroxylic compounds, ethers, carboxylic acids;                   


               esters; sulfur compounds; non-aliphatic ketones;                       
               aldehydes; nitro compounds; nitrogen oxides;                           
               nitriles; ammonia; amines; amides; and halogenated                     
               derivatives of the above compounds which do not                        
               already contain a halogen atom;                                        
                    such that said spin liquid comprises at least                     
               0.1 ppm of charge-improving compounds, up to ten                       
               weight percent of group A charge-improving                             
               compounds, and less than seventy-five weight percent                   
               of group B charge improving compounds.                                 
                                    THE REFERENCE                                     
          Shin et al. (Shin)            5,147,586            Sep. 15,                 
          1992                                                                        
                                    THE REJECTION                                     
               Claims 37, 42, 44, 45, 47 and 48 stand rejected under 35               
          U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Shin.1                              
                                       OPINION                                        
               We affirm the aforementioned rejection.                                
               The appellants state (brief, page 3) that independent                  

               An obviousness-type double patenting rejection of claims 37 and 42-481                                                                     
          over claims 1-19 of Shin and a rejection of claims 37 and 42-48 under 35    
          U.S.C. § 103 over Shin in view of U.S. 3,387,326 to Hollberg et al. are     
          withdrawn in the examiner’s answer (page 3).                                
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