Appeal No. 2005-0484
Application No. 09/888,696
Although the appellant refers to the instant specification
(pp. 6-7), and to Yamamori, as teaching particular techniques for
minimizing solvent content and achieving a high solids content,
appellant has failed to establish that an ordinary artisan would
be unable to achieve similar results, within the bounds of the
Yamaki disclosure, by exercising routine skill.
The “known” relationship between a composition’s solids
content and its viscosity, as elucidated by Stoye, is one of many
known factors which would presumably be considered by a person of
ordinary skill in the art in balancing solvent content against
solids content. This factor would evidently impose a limit on
the amount of solids which can be tolerated. As we have already
discussed, an opposing factor, also recognized in the art, is the
need to minimize the volatile organic solvent content of the
composition.
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