Appeal No. 1996-1716
Application No. 08/344,532
through 12, which stand withdrawn from consideration by the
examiner (Answer, page 1).
According to appellant, the invention is directed to an
epoxy adhesive composition comprising a major amount of an
epoxy resin and an oligomeric polyester, where the polyester
is produced by the reaction of specific types of dicarboxylic
acid and polyol (Brief, page 7). Appealed claim 1 is
illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and a
reproduction of this claim is attached as an Appendix to this
decision.
The examiner has relied upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Aharoni 4,336,343 Jun. 22, 1982
Koleske 4,707,535 Nov. 17, 1987
Nishikawa et al. (Nishikawa) 4,933,252 Jun. 12, 1990
Blount 5,034,423 Jul. 23, 1991
Tominaga et al. (Tominaga) 5,218,018 Jun. 8, 1993
Tanaka et al. (Tanaka) 62-195678 Aug. 28, 1987
(Published Japanese Kokai)2
Claims 1-4 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph, “as the specification, as originally filed,
2Our consideration of this reference relies on the English
translation of this document which has been made of record.
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