Appeal No. 1998-1278
Application No. 08/603,186
Foroulis EP 0 102 712 A1 Mar. 14, 1984
(Published European Patent Application)
Claims 1, 4 through 10 and 12 through 19 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the combined
disclosures of Pearce, Sartori, Lam and Foroulis.
Claims 1, 4 through 10 and 12 through 19 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the combined
disclosures of Pearce, Sartori, Lam and Butwell.
We have carefully reviewed the claims, specification and
applied prior art, including all of the arguments and evidence
advanced by both the examiner and the appellants in support of
their respective positions. This review leads us to conclude
that the examiner’s Section 103 rejections are well founded.
Accordingly, we will sustain the examiner’s Section
103 rejections. Our reasons for this determination follow.
We find that Pearce teaches employing copper carbonate with
or without an additional 50 to 2000 ppm of one or more specific
compounds to reduce corrosion of the metal in contact with an
absorbent and to reduce degradation of the absorbent under the
conditions of use
[i]n a [conventional] process for removing
carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial
combustion gases containing the CO2 and O2
contacting the gas, in a gas-liquid contactor,
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