Interference No. 103,303
(Emphasis added). We agree with the party Asanuma et al. that
injecting means adding the butene as quickly as possible to
the reaction mixture. The party Galimberti et al. did not add
butene-1 as quickly as possible but rather added the butene-1
over a period of 20 minutes. We are persuaded that the party
Asanuma et al.'s interpretation of injecting is a reasonable
one, especially since Dr. Galimberti testified at GR 35 and 36
that in the examples of his patent methanol was injected into
the reaction mixture to stop the reaction and that the term
injected in the context of his patent means to inject methanol
as a liquid in the shortest possible time.
Moreover, we note that party Asanuma et al.'s claim 11
positively recites a particular range for its C-NMR spectrum. 13
The Asanuma et al. application teaches at page 7, lines 17 to
20 and 29, that if the produced copolymer does not meet the
requirements for C-NMR spectrum, the copolymer must be washed13
with a solvent, such as xylene. The evidence of the party
Galimberti et al. does not address this limitation, i.e., show
that any copolymer which does not meet the requirements of
13C-NMR spectrum but which meets those requirements after
washing, would not have a xylene solubility less than 10%.
III
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