Appeal No. 2004-0380
Application No. 09/092,167
the cooking liquid is added so that individual segments are
arranged adjacent one to another segment-side-to-segment-side and
so that the cooking liquid is present between adjacent segment
sides and so that upon heating the segments and cooking liquid
for preparing the segments for consumption, the segments absorb
the cooking liquid and the segment sides adjacent one to another
tend to join and stick together. This appealed subject matter is
adequately illustrated by independent claim 40 which reads as
follows:
40. A process for providing a pasta product for
consumption comprising obtaining a plurality of individual
frozen pasta product segments from a pack, wherein the
individual frozen segments comprise three pasta sheet layers
and a sauce present between the pasta sheet layers and
wherein edges of the pasta sheets define segment sides,
arranging the plurality of the obtained segments in a pan
and adding a cooking liquid in the pan with the segments and
heating the segments and cooking liquid for preparing the
segments for consumption, wherein the segments are arranged
in the pan and the cooking liquid is added so that
individual segments are arranged adjacent one to another
segment-side-to-segment-side and so that the cooking liquid
is present between adjacent segment sides and so that upon
heating the segments and cooking liquid for preparing the
segments for consumption, the segments absorb the cooking
liquid and the segment sides adjacent one to another tend to
join and stick together.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obvious:
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