The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 19 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte JO-ANN E. BICE, STUART D. HELLRING, TIMOTHY A. OKEL and JAMES R. HAHN ___________ Appeal No. 2004-0448 Application No. 09/636,311 __________ ON BRIEF __________ Before PAK, OWENS, and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1-17, which are all of the claims in the application. THE INVENTION The appellants claim a method for making a hydrophobic particulate inorganic oxide having a carbon content that is substantially non-extractable and an M1 Standard White Area of less than 0.4%.1 Claim 1 is illustrative: 1 The procedure for determining the M1 Standard White Area is described in the appellants’ specification (page 30, line 7 - page 40, line 29).Page: 1 2 3 4 5 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007