Appeal No. 2001-0352
Application 08/872,097
port including a pressure seal, situated toeach cell has an injection and evacuation
provide access to one of said reaction port, there is a plurality of injection and
vessels, the plurality of injection ports evacuation ports. (column 5, lines 20-31,
operable for the injection of liquids into “inlet conduit” . “static valve”, “outlet
said reaction vessels; conduit”).
a plurality of evacuation ports, each See above.
evacuation port including a pressure seal,
situated to provide access to one of said
reaction vessels, the plurality of
evacuation ports operable for the
evacuation of fluids from said reaction
vessels;
injection and evacuation fittings formed toInjection and evacuation fittings 161 and
matingly engage said respective injection 164 matingly engage the injection and
and evacuation ports and to thereby evacuation ports.
enable the delivery of fluids to the reaction
vessels and the evacuation of fluids from
said reaction vessels; and
an actuator for controlling selectively Tray motor aligns cell with inlet and
aligning the injection and evacuation portsevacuation ports (column 8, lines 3-32).
of the plurality of reaction vessels and the
injection and evacuation fittings,
respectively.
The above analysis is merely instructional and is not to be construed as the only
way in which rejections can be explicated. To be fair to the Appellants and meet the
Examiner’s burden to establish a proper prima facie case of obviousness under §103 or
anticipation under §102, inter alia the rejections must be sufficiently clear and specific
such that the record enables a proper review.
Further, there must be some reason, suggestion, or motivation found in the prior
art whereby a person of ordinary skill in the field of the invention would make the
substitutions required. That knowledge cannot come from the applicants’ disclosure of
the invention itself. Diversitech Corp v. Century Steps, Inc., 850 F.2d 675, 687-9, 7
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