Appeal No. 1996-0214
Application 07/755,603
range recited in appellants’ claims.
We therefore remand the application to the examiner to
consider whether Meinhardt, in combination with prior art
which indicates degrees of substitution of Meinhardt’s
polyalkene with succinic groups which one of ordinary skill in
the art would have considered to be suitable, would have
rendered appellants’ claimed invention obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art within the meaning of 35 U.S.C.
§ 103.
DECISION
The rejection of claims 27, 30-33, 44, 45, 48, 49, 56-58,
65-67 and 71-90 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Meinhardt, and the rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 of
claims 27, 32, 33, 44, 45, 48, 49, 56-58, 65-67 and 71-90 over
Rense in view of Cullen and Palmer, claims 27, 30-33, 44, 45,
48, 49, 56-58, 65-67 and 71-90 over Okamoto or Robson in view
of Cullen and Palmer, and claims 27, 30, 44, 45, 48, 49, 56-
58, 65-67 and 71-90 over Le Suer in view of Cullen and Palmer,
are reversed.
REVERSED and REMANDED
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