Appeal No. 1998-3205
Application No. 08/272,438
REPRESENTATIVE CLAIM
Claim 6, which is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal, reads as
follows:
6. A method for improving the gloss retention on exposure to light of a dried
coating formed from a coalescent-free aqueous coating composition comprising
forming said coalescent-free coating composition, said composition
comprising an aqueous emulsion-polymerized polymeric binder having a glass
transition temperature from about –35 ºC to about +25 ºC, said binder comprising
from about 2% to about 20%, by weight based on the weight of said polymeric
binder, of at least one copolymerized ethylenically-unsaturated active methylene
monomer [emphasis added];
applying said coating composition to a substrate;
drying said coating composition; and
exposing said coating composition to light.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Bernard 5,278,227 Jan. 11, 1994
(filed October 21, 1992)
Bors et al. (Bors) 5,296,530 Mar. 22, 1994
(filed July 28, 1992)
Smith 3,554,987 Jan. 12, 1971
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