Appeal No. 1999-0663
Application 08/624,047
1,2-dichloroethane. Claim 11, directed toward the catalyst
composition, is illustrative:
11. A catalytic composition consisting of copper chloride,
magnesium chloride and potassium chloride deposited on an
alumina, containing from 30 to 90 g of copper, from 10 to 30 g of
magnesium and from 0.1 to 10 g of potassium, expressed as metal,
per kilo of catalytic composition, and in which the K/Cu atomic
ratio is from 0.025 to 0.25, the K/Mg atomic ratio is from 0.01
to 0.8, and the Mg/Cu atomic ratio is from 0.5 to 1.5.
THE REFERENCE
Scott 0 375 202 Jun. 27, 1990
(European patent application)
THE REJECTION
Claims 11, 14 and 16-27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Scott.
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejection. Under the
provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we enter a new ground of
rejection of claims 1, 2, 4-10, 12 and 13.
The appellants state that the claims do not stand or fall
together (brief, page 6). The appellants, however, merely point
out differences in the scope of the claims (brief, pages 6-7),
and this is not an argument as to why the claims are separately
patentable. Hence, we limit our discussion to one claim, i.e.,
claim 11. See In re Ochiai, 71 F.3d 1565, 1566 n.2, 37 USPQ2d
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