Appeal No. 1999-2518
Application 08/722,213
OPINION
We reverse the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) and affirm
the rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
The appellants state that some of the claims stand or fall
separately (brief, pages 3-4). We address the separately argued
claims to the extent justified by the appellants’ arguments.
Claims not separately argued stand or fall together. See In re
Ochiai, 71 F.3d 1565, 1566 n.2, 37 USPQ2d 1127, 1129 n.2 (Fed.
Cir. 1995); 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(1997).
Rejections of claims 11, 19 and 20 under
35 U.S.C. §§ 102(b) and 103 over Collier
The appellants state that claims 11 and 19 stand or fall
together and that claim 20 is independently patentable (brief,
page 3). We therefore address only claim 20 and one of the other
claims, i.e., claim 11.
Collier discloses a detergent composition which includes a
builder which can be water soluble (page 31, lines 1-19; page 33,
lines 1-4), an enzyme (page 6, line 14), and a bleach source
which can be a substituted peroxybenzoic acid bleaching agent
(page 34, lines 7-10; page 35, lines 2-3). The exemplified
the claims of application nos. 08/722,035, 08/722,036 and
08/722,037.
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