Appeal No. 1996-1132
Application 08/217,752
37 CFR § 1.197(b) provides as follows:
Appellant may file a single request for rehearing within two months
from the date of the original decision, unless the original decision is so
modified by the decision on rehearing as to become, in effect, a new
decision, and the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences so states.
The request for rehearing must state with particularity the points
believed to have been misapprehended or overlooked in rendering the
decision and also state all other grounds upon which rehearing is
sought. See § 1.136(b) for extensions of time for seeking rehearing in
a patent application and § 1.550(c) for extensions of time for seeking
rehearing in a reexamination proceeding.
Appellants assert that the Board has overlooked and/or misconstrued
limitations appearing in claim 1. Specifically Appellants state:
[C]laim 1 according to the present invention requires, inter alia:
(iii) withdrawing azine final product thus formed from
said circulating reaction medium to maintain the volume
thereof essentially constant,
(iv) heating said circulating reaction medium to a
temperature of at least 130/C...
Thus, as set forth above, the process of the presently claimed
invention requires the step of withdrawing azine final product from the
reaction medium (step iii) and heating said circulating medium (which
does not include the azine reaction product, which was removed in
step (iii)) to a temperature of at least 130/C (step (iv)). Appellants
respectfully submit that neither the grounds for rejection nor the
Decision rendered May 31, 2001 fully account for these requirements.
[Rehearing Request, p. 2]
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