Appeal No. 1998-3322
Application No. 08/796,500
In addition, the examiner has made the following
rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103: Claim 35 is rejected over
Kitano in view of Urban and Brenner; claims 21-26, 28-32, 34
and 35 are rejected over Green in view of Urban and Brenner;
claim 27 is rejected over Green in view of Urban, Brenner and
Gaussens; and claim 33 is rejected over Ryan in view of Green,
Urban and Brenner.
We refer to the brief and reply brief and to the answer
for a complete discussion of the opposing viewpoints expressed
by the appellants and by the examiner concerning the above
noted rejections.
OPINION
We cannot sustain any of the rejections advanced by the
examiner on this appeal.
The examiner’s section 112, first paragraph, rejection is
based upon his belief that the appellants’ specification does
not contain written description support for “the limitation in
the claims . . . requiring the selection of ALL of the
adhesive components . . . to be responsible for the color
change which occurs in the adhesive upon curing thereof” and
that the specification fails to establish “a phase separation
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