Appeal No. 1996-0672
Application No. 08/164,774
examiner’s stated rejection, appellants argue that one of
ordinary skill in this art would have understood from the
originally filed specification that the claimed optically
active chiral “raw materials” are starting materials useful in
making more complicated ferroelectric liquid crystals and in
providing doped liquid crystalline compositions. Appellants’
arguments are supported, inter alia, by a declaration from an
“experienced synthetic organic chemist” and researcher “in the
field of liquid crystals”, Dr. Jawad Naciri. In his
declaration at pages 7 and 8, Dr. Naciri states that based on
his knowledge of liquid crystals in general, he was
“immediately able to envision” three specific classes of
liquid crystalline compounds which may be produced by
substituting the claimed compounds for existing 6-membered
ring-containing liquid crystalline compounds involving “only,
simple routine synthetic organic reactions well within the
skill of a person having only ordinary skills in the liquid
crystalline field as of January, 1992.” At page 8 of Dr.
Naciri’s declaration, he further states that one of ordinary
skill in this art would have also immediately envisioned the
use of the claimed compounds as low molecular weight chiral
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