Appeal No. 95-2011
Application No. 07/959,011
group which is available for later reaction with said
epoxy resin upon drying to produce a crosslinked
polymer product.
12. A contact adhesive comprising the latex composition of
Claim 1 wherein the core-shell polymer has a Tg of -70 to 50EC
and an effective tackifying amount of a tackifer.
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Ting 4,285,847 Aug. 25,
1981
Shih 5,177,122 Jan. 5,
19932
Handbook of Adhesives 437-49 (Irving Skeist ed., 3rd ed. 1990)
(hereinafter "Skeist").
The following rejections are at issue in this appeal:
(1) Claims 1-11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Ting.
(2) Claims 12-18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over the combination of Shih and Skeist.
Grouping of claims
According to appellants (Brief, p. 2):
2The application which matured into the Shih patent was
filed on December 14, 1990 which is the patent's effective
date as "prior art" under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e).
4
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