Appeal No. 2001-0936
Application No. 08/952,208
issues on appeal, the claims will stand or fall together. For
purposes of the Section 103 issue of this appeal, the appellants
have urged that claims 13-16 should stand apart. Accordingly,
for the Section 112 issues the claims will stand or fall together
with claim 1. For the Section 103 issues, we select claim 1 as
representative of claims 1, 3-6, and 10-12; and claim 13 as
representative of claims 13-16, respectively. Note In re Dance,
160 F.3d 1339, 1340 n.2, 48 USPQ2d 1635, 1636 n.2 (Fed. Cir.
1998); In re King, 801 F.2d 1324, 1325, 231 USPQ 136, 137 (Fed.
Cir. 1986); In re Sernaker, 702 F.2d 989, 991, 217 USPQ 1, 3
(Fed. Cir. 1983). They read as follows:
1. A process for the preparation of caprolactam by reacting
6-aminocapronitrile with water, which process comprises reacting
a mixture of 6-aminocapronitrile and the tetrahydroazepin of the
formula (I)
which mixture comprises at least 0.01% by weight of the
tetrahydroazepine of the formula I, in the liquid phase in the
presence of a heterogeneous catalyst.
2
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