Appeal No. 95-3536
Application 08/038,400
specific examples of plasticizers which can be employed. While Minagawa does refer to conventional
plasticizers as including epoxidized soybean oil when discussing PVC, we find no disclosure or
suggestion in Minagawa which would have motivated or led one skilled in the art to specifically select
epoxidized esters of a fatty acids to be combined with a polyolefin and the phosphite stabilizer to
arrive at the composition recited in the claimed process. Accordingly, for the reasons given above,
the decision of the examiner is reversed.
REVERSED
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