Appeal No. 2004-2052
Application 09/509,147
existing laboratory magnetic stirrer, normally only capable of
accommodating and effectively stirring the contents of one
reaction vessel, for parallel synthesis where a plurality of
reaction vessels are correctly and effectively located in a
magnetic field generated by the laboratory magnetic stirrer and
receive essentially equivalent stirring with respect to the
magnetic field. Independent claims 1, 11 and 13 are
representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
those claims can be found in the Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Landsberger 3,356,346 Dec. 5, 1967
Jones 3,594,129 Jul. 20, 1971
Baker et al. (Baker) WO 97/09353 Mar. 13, 1997
Claims 1 and 3 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph, as containing subject matter which was
not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably
convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventors, at
the time the application was filed, had possession of the now
claimed invention.
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