Appeal No. 95-1146
Application No. 07/913,126
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 2,
16 and 18. Claim 17, the other claim remaining in the present
application, has been withdrawn from consideration as being
directed to a non-elected species. Claim 16 is illustrative:
16. A curable latex composition comprising an emulsion
in an aqueous medium of:
(i) (a) a polymer containing poly (C -C
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alkylacrylamido-glycolate) functionality and
(b) a polymer or compound containing poly (active
hydrogen) functionality or
(ii) a copolymer containing poly (C -C alkylacrylamido-
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glycolate) functionality and poly (active hydrogen)
functionality, said polymers (i) or (ii) comprising
from about 1 to about 40 weight percent of said C -
1
C alkylacrylamidoglycolate functional units, with
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the proviso that said active hydrogen functionality
is not provided by an amine.
In the rejection of the appealed claims, the examiner
relies upon the following references:
Cady et al. (Cady) 4,454,301 June 12, 1984
Schirmann et al. (Schirmann) 4,778,869 Oct. 18, 1988
Schirmann et al. (EPO '000) 0 020 000 Dec. 10, 1980
(European patent application)
Appellants' claimed invention is directed to a curable,
aqueous emulsion of a copolymer containing poly (C -C
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alkylacrylamidoglycolate) functionality and poly (active
hydrogen) functionality. The appealed claims contain the
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