Appeal No. 2004-0137
Application 10/073,321
the specification states that the composition can include
optional ingredients (page 3) (answer, pages 5-6).
The relevant inquiry, however, is not whether the
composition can include components other than benzotrifluoride
and trichloroethylene but, rather, whether the original
specification indicates that the appellants were in possession of
a composition which is substantially free of other components.
Such a composition is disclosed in the tables on pages 4 and 5
of the original specification. Accordingly, we reverse the
rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph.
Rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103
Hisamoto discloses a method for cleaning an article by
contacting the article with a composition containing, as the main
components, a halogenated hydrocarbon solvent, a fluorine-
containing alcohol and an organic acid (col. 1, lines 45-48).
The disclosed halogenated hydrocarbon solvents include
trichloroethylene and benzotrifluoride, and Hisamoto teaches that
the solvents can be used in admixture (col. 1, line 68 - col. 2,
line 1; col. 2, lines 7 and 9).
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