Ex parte LUNDBERG et al. - Page 3

                     Appeal No. 1996-3000                                                                                                                                              
                     Application 08/304,105                                                                                                                                            

                     skill in the art would have found in the specific disclosure of “ionic preferential plasticizer” in Agarwal et                                                    
                     al. both the suggestion and reasonable expectation of success to replace the same with the plasticizers                                                           
                     specified in the appealed claims.  Thus, it is manifest that the only direction to appellants’ claimed                                                            
                     invention as a whole on the record before us is supplied by appellants’ own specification.                                                                        
                                The examiner’s decision is reversed.                                                                                                                   
                                                                                    Reversed                                                                                           











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