Appeal No. 95-3398
Application No. 08/103,318
Furthermore, the examiner asserts that those of ordinary
skill in the art would discern a need to make the Albright
polymers more hydrophilic, and therefore more wettable, when used
as ion exchange resins. This assertion appears to be based on
unsupported speculation on the part of the examiner inasmuch as
Albright is apparently unconcerned with the enhancement of
hydrophilic properties. In fact, the polymers of Albright are
designed to be used in both aqueous and nonaqueous media
(Albright: column 2, lines 18-20). Indeed, the examiner has not
even established a nexus in the prior art between the hydrophilic
characteristics of a resin and its ion exchange properties.
Additionally, the combination of Frechtling with Albright is
even more problematic in that each relates to resins having
different ultimate utilities. The polymers of Albright are used
as adsorbents or ion exchange resins. On the other hand,
Frechtling is concerned with forming a free-flowing powder which
can be converted to a stable latex by the addition of water. In
this regard, the following portions of the Frechtling disclosure
are particularly pertinent: column 1, lines 9-27; column 3, lines
45-51; column 4, lines 21-27; column 5, lines 51-55; column 6,
lines 8-21. Accordingly, we fail to discern any logical reason
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