Appeal No. 96-3906
Application No. 08/038,588
This appeal was taken from the examiner's decision
rejecting claims 1, 2 and 4 through 6. Claims 8 through 13,
which are the
only other claims remaining in the application, stand
withdrawn from further consideration by the examiner as
directed to a non-elected invention.
Claim 1, which is illustrative of the subject matter on
appeal, reads as follows:
1. A method for preparing metal surfaces for the
application of paint and siccative coatings thereto comprising
adding an effective amount to said metal surfaces of an
aqueous solution of citric acid, a hydroxycarboxylic acid
salt, a nonionic surfactant having an HLB of about 3 to about
8 and sodium xylene sulfonate.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Austin 3,879,216 Apr. 22, 1975
Holder et al. (Holder) 4,789,406 Dec. 6, 1988
King et al. (King) 4,599,116 July 8, 1986
VanEenam 5,080,831 Jan. 14, 1992
Claims 1, 2 and 4 through 6 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as indefinite. Claims 1, 2
and 4 through 6 also stand rejected as based on a
specification which does not comply with the description and
enablement requirements of 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph.
Finally, claims 1, 2 and 4 through 6 stand rejected under
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