Appeal No. 95-2011
Application No. 07/959,011
Claims 1 to 11 stand or fall together on the
ground of rejection that they are unpatentable over Ting.
Claims 12 to 18 stand or fall together on the
ground of rejection that they are unpatentable over
Shih in view of Handbook of Adhesives [Skeist].
Therefore, for purposes of this appeal, claims 2-11 stand or
fall with the patentability of claim 1, and claims 13-18 stand
or fall with the patentability of claim 12. See 37 CFR §
1.192(c)(7).
Claim 1
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Ting. We reverse this rejection.
Claim 1 is directed to a latex composition comprising a
core-shell polymer produced by an aqueous emulsion
polymerization method. The core polymer comprises an epoxy
resin and at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and
the shell polymer comprises at least one ethylenically
unsaturated monomer and a hydroxyl or carboxyl functional
monomer. An effective curing amount of an organic compound
containing at least one amino functional group is post-added
to the core-shell polymer composition for later reaction with
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