Appeal No. 2001-2151
Application No. 09/035,174
Thus, whether or not it would have been prima facie obvious
to conduct the subject metathesis reaction in a distillation
column reactor, the prior art provides no motivation to do so
under conditions where water is present in the feed streams and
is azeotropically removed in the column.
For the foregoing reasons, the decision of the examiner is
reversed as to each of the rejections before us.
REVERSED
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