which also contains the following stabilizing compounds:
A) *** B) *** and C) ***.
7. Applicants also added claims 4 and 5 to the
application.
8. In support of their amendment to claim 1,
applicants made the following observation (Paper 8, pages 3-
4):
Claim 1 has been amended to indicate that the blocking
agent of the polyisocyanate does not contain a 2,2,6,6-
tetramethyl piperydinyl group. Support for the amendment
can be found in the following sections of the
specification which reasonably convey to one skilled in
the art that [a]pplicants have invented a polyisocyanate
that is blocked with a blocking agent that does not
contain the 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl piperydinyl group. In
page 4, lines 3-6 and lines 7-13, for instance, the
specification lists blocking agents [page 4] and
stabilizing agents separately. The blocking agents do
not contain the 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl piperydinyl group.
Support can also be found in example 1 in which a
polyisocyanate is blocked with butanone oxime. As such,
the amendments have been made to better define the
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