Appeal No. 95-0331
Application No. 07/626,904
Additionally, we agree with the examiner’s conclusion
that it would have been obvious for one with ordinary skill in
the art to provide the process and composition claimed by
Boardman with photoinitiators of the type taught by McDowell
in view of Eckberg’s teaching of using photoinitiators
generally in hydrosilation reactions involving platinum
catalysts. In this latter regard, we are mindful of the
appellants’ argument that McDowell contains no disclosure
relating his photoinitiators to processes involving
hydrosilation reactions and platinum catalysts. From our
perspective, however, this deficiency of McDowell is supplied
by Eckberg. That is, Eckberg’s aforementioned teaching of
using photoinitiators generally in hydrosilation reactions
involving platinum catalyst would have led an artisan with
ordinary skill to a reasonable expectation that the specific
photoinitiators of McDowell (which correspond to those here
claimed) would be successful in the catalytic hydrosilation
processes and compositions claimed by Boardman.
For the above stated reasons, we will sustain the
examiner’s rejection of all the appealed claims under the
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