Appeal No. 94-3812 Application 07/857,701 colloidal inorganic particles embedded in a radiation cured crosslinked polymer matrix of a polymer formed from the cure of monomers comprising polyethylenically unsaturated amide of acrylic acid. BACKGROUND Appellant noted this appeal on October 18, 1993 (Paper Number 20). His brief was filed on December 27, 1993 (Paper Number 22). The examiner filed his Answer on February 17, 1994 (Paper Number 23). In his Answer, the examiner included a statement of the outstanding grounds of rejection, specifically: (1) Claims 30 and 34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112, first and second paragraphs, based on several different theories; (2) claims 1 through 5, 7 through 11, 13 through 17, 30 and 34 stand rejected under the judicially created doctrine of obviousness double patenting; and, (3) claims 1, 13, 30 and 34 stand rejected as being unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 from Kojima et al. considered with Dessauer and Aoyama et al. Additionally, the examiner entered a new ground of rejection of claims 1 through 5, 7 through 11, 13 through 17, 30 and 34 as being unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Appellant was given two months from the date of the Answer in which to file a reply to the new ground of rejection. The examiner also noted in his Answer that the 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007