Appeal No. 1997-0855
Application No. 08/248,543
entirety of the Cheshire patents, e.g., '956 at column 5,
lines 11 et seq., that lines 35 and 24 carry both liquid and
foam and are combined at the T in a mixture of foamed liquid
and a water slurry of fibers.
Appellants also submit at page 3 of the Request that we
erroneously concluded that claims 23-25 fall together with
claim 22. Appellants point out that the Brief states at page
9 that "[c]laims 23, 24 and 25 contain additional features
which make each of them separately patentable." However, such
a conclusory statement falls far short of the requisite
presentation of substantive arguments which explain why each
of claims 23, 24 and 25 would have been nonobvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art. See 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7) and
(c)(8) (1995). In the opening sentence of the paragraph at
page 9 of the Brief, referred to by appellants, appellants
treat all the appealed claims as a group. In particular,
appellants state that "[e]ach appealed claim in this
application (22-25) contains a limitation requiring: means
for mixing an aqueous slurry of fibers with foam to form a
foamed fiber furnish." Although appellants maintain at page 3
of the Request that "much of Applicants [sic, Applicants']
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