Appeal No. 1999-2544 Page 19
Application No. 08/796,513
Claims 3 and 16 are dependent on claims 1 and 12,
respectively. The rejection of claims 3 and 16 as being
unpatentable over Jackson in view of Zwann or Lambert and
further in view of either Sumiyoshi or Garcera will not be
sustained for the same reasons as recited above with respect
to claims 1 and 12, respectively. Sumiyoshi and Garcera are
applied by the examiner for their teaching of the subject
matter of claims 3 and 16 and they do not make up for the
deficiencies noted above with respect to the rejection of
claims 1 and 12 over Jackson in view of Zwann or Lambert.
Sumiyoshi discloses using porous ceramic tubes (column 4, line
9) as a clarifying filter for collecting solid particles
suspended in a slurry (column 1, lines 9-10), but does not
teach or suggest an electrical heating means for electrically
heating fibers on their outer circumferential surface (the
deficiency noted above with respect to claim 1) or the heating
means for directly and substantially evenly heating an outer
circumferential surface of said hollow fibers (the deficiency
noted above with respect to claim 12). Garcera discloses a
filter module for filtering, separating, purifying gases or
liquids, or for catalytic conversion comprising sintered glass
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