Appeal No. 95-5097
Application No. 08/072,807
218 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1983). The term “copolymer”, as
understood by one of ordinary skill in the art, includes two
or more different monomers. Thus in view of the open term4
“comprising” and the art-accepted meaning of “copolymer”, we
find the examiner’s construction of the claimed language as
including the additional unsaturated organic compound monomer
(e.g., maleic anhydride) of
4See the definition of “copolymerization” in Hackh’s
Chemical Dictionary, 3rd ed., p. 672, The Blakiston Co.
(1953), and The Van Nostrand Chemist’s Dictionary, pp. 549-50,
Van Nostrand Co. (1953), copies of which are attached to this
decision.
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