Appeal No. 1999-1254
Application No. 08/820,490
Because each of the cooling steps of the Sikander reference
collects mercury condensate the temperature of those steps
must be below the boiling point of mercury. Therefore,
Sikander likewise contains no teaching or suggestion of the
appellants' claimed step of cooling to a temperature above the
boiling point of mercury.
Thus, even if combined, the applied references would not
have yielded the here-claimed process having the cooling step
under consideration. It follows that the examiner's rejection
cannot be sustained.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
REVERSED
BRADLEY R. GARRIS )
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