Appeal No. 95-3400
Application 08/179,793
DECISION ON APPEAL
This decision on appeal relates to the final rejection of
claims 1-14. The only other claims pending in the involved
application, claims 15-23, stand withdrawn from consideration by
the examiner pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.142(b) as being drawn to non-
elected inventions and, thus, are not before us.
The claims are directed to a bulk polymerization process for
producing a poly(thioether ether) by reacting at least one
aliphatic C - C dithiol with diallyl ether.2 10
Appellants acknowledge on page 2 of their brief that all of
the claims on appeal stand or fall together. Accordingly, we
will limit our consideration to claim 1, the broadest independent
claim, which reads as follows:
1. A process for making a poly(thioether ether), said
process comprising reacting diallyl ether with an aliphatic C -C
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dithiol in a bulk polymerization process under free-radical
conditions to produce a poly(thioether ether).
Claims 1-14 stand solely rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph, for lack of an enabling disclosure, particularly
with regard to disclosure of a practical utility for the
polymeric products produced by the claimed process.
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