Ex parte TROFAST et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1999-0400                                                        
          Application No. 08/316,938                                                  

              b) spheronizing the agglomerates;                                       
              c) passing the agglomerates through a sizing sieve to                   
         produce a sample of agglomerates of substantially uniform size;              
              d) repeating step (b); and                                              
              e) repeating step (c).                                                  




                                    THE EVIDENCE                                      
              The references relied on by the examiner as evidence of                 
         obviousness are:                                                             
         Bremer                        4,038,010                 Jul. 26,             
         1977                                                                         
         Watson et al. (Watson)        4,039,480                 Aug.  2,             
         1977                                                                         
         Gibson                        4,495,308                 Jan. 22,             
         1985                                                                         
         Szczesny et al. (Szczesny)    4,514,300                 Apr. 30,             
         1985                                                                         
         Edmonds                       4,605,173                 Aug. 12,             
         1986                                                                         
         Moriya                        4,655,701                 Apr.  7,             
         1987                                                                         
         Good et al. (Good)            4,689,297                 Aug. 25,             
         1987                                                                         
         Sipos                         5,262,172                 Nov. 16,             
         1993                                                                         
         Ibsen                         5,288,500                 Feb. 22,             
         1994                                                                         
         Baichwal et al. (Baichwal)    5,399,358                 Mar. 21,             
         1995                                                                         
         Madsen                        5,547,567                 Aug. 20,             
         1996                                                                         

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