Appeal No. 2005-0360
Application No. 09/896,853
The examiner relies upon the following references in the
rejections of the appealed claims:
Pruehs et al. (Pruehs) 4,898,621 Feb. 6, 1990
Schmid et al. (Schmid) 197 38 866 A1 Mar. 11, 1999
(German patent)
As is readily apparent from illustrative claim 11,
appellants' claimed invention is directed to an aqueous laundry
detergent composition comprising a hydroxy mixed ether and water
in an amount within the recited range of 25 to 75% by weight.
According to appellants' specification, "[h]ydroxy mixed ethers
(HMEs) are known nonionic surfactants with a nonsymmetrical ether
structure and a content of polyalkylene glycols which are
obtained, for example, by subjecting olefin epoxides to a ring
opening reaction with fatty alcohol polyglycol ethers" (page 2,
paragraph four).
Appealed claims 11-22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Pruehs. Claims 11-23 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Schmid.
Appellants submit at page 2 of the Brief that "[t]he claims
stand and fall together." Accordingly, all the appealed claims
stand or fall together with claim 11, and we will limit our
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