Commercial Tempering Practices

While we have properly focused on the inventor s perception of what the best mode is, the best mode does not have to be part of the applicant s invention per se but can be part of what is known in the art or even provided to the inventor by, for example, a particular commercial supplier. For example, if a claimed process requires a catalyst and the inventors have found that a particular commercial supplier s catalyst is best for practicing the claimed process, then that detail will need to be disclosed in the patent application. However, the potential inconvenience of this latter requirement is significantly tempered by the more fundamental requirement that the best mode applies to the claimed invention only. 

We must temper our initial disappointment at the small equilibrium constant by recalling that industrial processes often involve recycling of unreacted starting material. This depends on effective removal of what product there is, before the unreacted ethylene is put through the catalyst bed once again. In this case, washing of product mixture with liquid water is all that is required to remove the ethanol, and so commercial operation is practicable after all. 

Collection The essential oil is commercially produced. A few herbalists are working to reclaim the home production of essential oils, but it is not yet a common practice. However, the essential oil is cheap and is easily found. The plant grows throughout the temperate regions of the world. Native to Australia, it has gone everywhere with humankind, it is overwhelmingly established in California. 

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