Appeal No. 95-3353 Page 5
Application No. 07/855,799
Claims 3-11 and 20-22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Vandenberg in view of Aotani.
OPINION
We have carefully considered all the evidence of
record, including the specification, claims, the applied prior
art, and the respective positions articulated by the
appellant and the examiner in the briefs and answers thereto.
As a result, we agree with appellant that the combined prior
art references as applied by the examiner do not render the
subject matter defined by the claims prima facie obvious.
Accordingly, we shall not sustain the examiner's rejection for
the reasons as follows.
Vandenberg discloses polyethers that contain pendent
azidomethyl groups and teaches that these polymers are
crosslinkable by heat, photolysis, and the addition of
polyfunctional dipolarophiles (column 3, lines 39-47).
Patentee also suggests that the disclosed polyethers have
diverse utilities including use "as coatings of improved
adhesion for substrates such as metal, glass, textiles, paper,
wood..." (column 3, lines 47-54).
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