Appeal No. 2004-1861
Application No. 09/846,483
Clarke or Fujitsu. (Examiner’s answer mailed Jul. 30, 2003,
pages 3-6.)
We affirm these rejections. Because we are in complete
agreement with the examiner’s factual findings and legal
conclusions, we adopt them as our own and add the following
comments for emphasis.1
Clarke
As the examiner notes (answer at 3-4), Clarke describes a
lubricating oil composition for use in marine diesel engines
comprising 60 to 85 parts by weight of lubricating oil, 15 to 30
parts by weight of a mixture of more than 50 wt.% of a Group IIa
metal overbased detergent and up to 50 wt.% of a Group Ia metal
overbased detergent, and 0.2 to 5 parts by weight of an
antioxidant, provided that the weight ratio of the overbased
detergent mixture to antioxidant is between 7.5:1 and 50:1, all
parts by weight referring to total active matter of the
additive. (Column 1, lines 17-28.) According to Clarke, the
overbased detergent may be an overbased Ia or IIa metal
1 The appellants submit that claims 10 and 17 should be
considered separately from claims 1-8 and 11-16 and provide
reasonably specific arguments in support thereof. We therefore
select representative claims 1 and 10 from the two groups of
claims and decide this appeal as to the examiner’s grounds of
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