Appeal No. 95-2683
Application No. 07/883,912
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 11-
17, all the claims remaining in the present application.
Claim 11 is illustrative:
11. A process which comprises interpolymerizing ethylene
with an alpha olefin CHR=CH wherein R is a saturated
2
aliphatic radical with 2 or more carbon atoms or a
cycloaliphatic radical, in the presence of a coordination
catalyst, one component of which contains a Ti-Cl bond.
In the rejection of the appealed claims, the examiner
relies upon the following references:
Anderson et al. (Anderson) 2,905,645 Sep. 22, 1959
Vandenberg 3,058,963 Oct. 16, 1962
Appellants' claimed invention is directed to a process
for interpolymerizing ethylene and an alpha olefin of the
recited formula in the presence of a coordination catalyst
having a component containing a Ti-Cl bond.
Appellants submit at page 2 of the principal Brief that
"[t]he claims are not grouped separately." Accordingly, all
the appealed claims stand or fall together as they are grouped
by the examiner in different rejections.
Claims 11 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph, as being based upon an original specification
that does not provide descriptive support for the claim
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