The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for
publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte LAWRENCE J. KARAS,
LAWRENCE M. CADELA
and ANDREW P. KAHN
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Appeal No. 2004-2019
Application No. 10/301,441
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ON BRIEF
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Before PAK, KRATZ and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1-3, which are all of the claims pending in
this application.
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to a method of separating
impurities from an MTBE stream. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced below.
1. The method of separating impurities from a MTBE
process stream feed comprised mainly of MTBE and
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