Appeal No. 1996-0047
Application No. 08/047,758
moieties, per molecule of said second olefin polymer present
in the reaction mixture used to form said second acid
producing material; and (b) a second nucleophilic reactant
selected from the group consisting of amines, alcohols, amino
alcohols and mixtures thereof.
Claims 1 through 33 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph, as lacking descriptive support for the
claimed subject matter in the disclosure as originally filed;
lacking an enabling disclosure for the claimed subject matter
and lacking a best mode of carrying out the claimed subject
matter. We reverse.
At the outset, we note that appellants request that we
review the objection to the specification under 35 U.S.C. §
132 and 35 U.S.C. § 112. However, we will not exercise our
jurisdiction over this matter because the newly inserted
phrases in the specification do not affect the claims or the
rejection in question. Specifically, the claims do not
include such newly inserted phrases. Rather, they only recite
those specific species of monocarboxylic acids, which are
explicitly described in the application disclosure as
originally filed. The newly inserted phrases, however, are
directed to a subgenus of monocarboxylic acids, which is not
explicitly described in the original application disclosure.
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