Appeal No. 94-3812
Application 07/857,701
examiner's refusal to allow claims 1 through 5, 7 through 11,
13 through 17, 30 and 34. Claims 6, 18 through 29 and 31
through 33, the only other claims remaining in this
application, have been withdrawn
from consideration as claims directed to a previously non-
elected invention and, accordingly, form no issue in this
appeal.
THE INVENTION
The claimed invention is directed to an article which
comprises an unprimed metal surface which is silver, brass,
nickel or aluminum. The metal article has adhering thereto an
abrasion resistant, transparent to visible light, moisture
resistant coating which comprises colloidal inorganic
particles embedded in a cured polymer prepared from a monomer
of a polyethylenically unsaturated amide of acrylic acid.
Claim 1 is reproduced below for a more facile
understanding of appellant's claimed invention.
1. An article comprising an unprimed metal surface
selected from the group consisting of silver, brass,
nickel and aluminum having adhered thereto an abrasion
resistant, transparent to visible light, moisture
resistant coating comprising 33.3 to 66.7% by weight of
2
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