Appeal No. 96-0596
Application No. 08/069,887
page 1). Claims 28 through 30 stand withdrawn from
consideration by the examiner as being drawn to a nonelected
invention (brief, page 1). Claims 3, 7, 12, 16, 24, and 26,
the remaining claims in this application, stand objected to as
being dependent upon a rejected base claim but allowable if
rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations
of the base claim and any intervening claims (brief, page 3,
and the final rejection dated July 1, 1994, Paper No. 9, page
2).
According to appellants, the invention is directed to a
bituminous composition incorporating a finely divided
inorganic filler and an acid functionalized polyolefin polymer
having a plurality of pendant acid or acid anhydride groups
(brief, page 1). This composition is used as a backing for
carpet tiles (brief, page 1, and the specification, page 1).
Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is
reproduced below:
1. A bitumen composition comprising:
12 to 35 weight % of bitumen having a ring and ball
softening point ranging from 100°F to 200°F and a needle point
penetration of from 20 to 200;
2
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