Appeal No. 95-3782
Application 08/048,371
and the examiner has indicated that these claims are allowed
(brief, page 1).
According to appellants, the invention is directed to an
article of manufacture comprising a plurality of electrical
conductors surrounded by one or more layers of a composition
comprising a polyolefin and a linear or cyclic
organopolysiloxane containing one or more functionalized
hindered amine moieties, with hydrocarbon cable filler grease
within the interstices between the conductors (specification,
page 3, lines 6-15).
Appellants state that the claims stand or fall together
(brief, page 1). Accordingly, we will base our decision on 2
independent claim 1, which is illustrative of the subject
matter on appeal and is reproduced below:
1. An article of manufacture comprising (i) a
plurality of electrical conductors, each surrounded by one or
more layers of a composition comprising (a) one or more
polyolefins and bonded thereto or blended therewith, (b) a
linear or cyclic organopolysiloxane containing one or more
functionalized hindered amine moieties; and (ii) hydrocarbon
cable filler grease within the interstices between said
2 See 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(5)(1993), now 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(1995).
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