Appeal No. 1996-1735
Application No. 08/184,526
Digital Data Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385,
388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). The law of anticipation, however, does
not require that the reference teaches what appellants are
claiming, but only that the claims on appeal "read on"
something disclosed in the reference. See Kalman v. Kimberly-
Clark Corp., 713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir.
1983).
We find, as found by the examiner at pages 3 and 5 of the
Answer , that the Weiss reference discloses a latent4
activatable composite comprising an epoxy resin and an amine-
terminated polyamide curing agent. See, e.g., Weiss, pages 1
and 2. Appellants also acknowledged that the Weiss reference
discloses that the ratio of amine group equivalents to acid
group equivalents comprising the polyamide curative is
2.00:1.00. See Brief, page 9, and the Mardis declaration
executed on June 30, 1995, page 4, together with Weiss, page
8, examples 3-5. Appellants, however, argue that such a ratio
4The examiner has not properly numbered the pages of the
Answer. Specifically, one of the pages in the Answer has not
been numbered. Thus, we have renumbered them accordingly.
The unnumbered page will be page 3, and pages 3, 4 and 5 will
be renumbered as pages 4, 5 and 6, respectively.
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