Appeal No. 2007-0495
Application No. 10/699,510
Have the appellants shown that the examiner has failed to establish that claims 1,
13, and 14 are obvious over claims 20, 22, and 23 of copending Application 10/699,529?
FINDINGS OF FACT
The appellants’ invention relates generally to high throughput preparation of a
plurality of different lubricating oil compositions for combinatorial libraries and
subsequent high throughput screening for lubricant performance (specification, p. 1, lines
5-7).
Combinatorial chemistry generally refers to methods and materials for creating
collections of diverse materials or compounds—commonly known as libraries—and to
techniques and instruments for evaluating or screening libraries for desirable properties
(specification, p. 1, lines 15-17).
The base oil of the appellants’ lubricating oil compositions may be any natural or
synthetic lubricating base oil (specification, p. 6, lines 15-17).
The base oil may be derived from natural lubricating oils, synthetic lubricating
oils or mixtures thereof (specification, p. 7, lines 1-2).
Synthetic lubricating oils include silicon-based oils (specification, p. 9, lines
11-13).
Additives can be any presently known or later-discovered additive used in
formulating lubricating oil compositions (specification, p. 10, lines 20-21).
Figure 1 illustrates a system 100 for preparing a plurality of test samples. Vessel
110 contains a supply of base oil B, and vessel 120 contains a supply of additive A
(specification, p. 15, lines 18-22).
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