Appeal No. 96-1781
Application 08/389,521
37 USPQ2d 1127, 1129 n.2 (Fed. Cir. 1995); 37 CFR
§ 1.192(c)(7)(1995).
Rejection of claim 11
Anderson (col. 2, lines 7-13), Bozzi (col. 2, lines 46-
55; col. 6, lines 47-50) and Howell, Jr. (col. 5, lines 38-46;
col. 7, lines 30-45) each disclose a process for making a
water dispersion of an epoxy resin by dissolving an epoxy
resin and an aminoplast in an organic solvent, and dispersing
this mixture in water and a surfactant using a high shear
mixer.
Appellants argue that their process does not use or
require and organic solvent (brief, page 5). We are not
persuaded by this argument because there is no language in
appellants’ claims which excludes an organic solvent, and
because appellants’ claims use the transition term
“comprising”, which opens the claims to include the step of
dissolving the epoxy resin and aminoplast in an organic
solvent before this mixture is combined with the
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