Appeal No. 1996-3560
Application No. 08/432,560
The references of record relied upon by the examiner as
evidence of obviousness are:
Hombach et al. (Hombach) 4,663,377 May
5, 1987
Weissgerber et al. (Weissgerber) 4,997,879 Mar. 5,
1991
Kubitza et al. (Kubitza) 5,075,370 Dec.
24, 1991
Odian, Principles of Polymerization, Second Edition, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York (1981) pp. 319-320.
THE REJECTION
Claims 5 through 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as unpatentable over Hombach in view of Weissgerber, Odian and
Kubitza.
OPINION
As an initial matter, appellants submit that claims 5
through 13 are grouped together for purposes of this appeal.2
Accordingly, we select claim 5, the sole independent
composition claim as representative of appellants’ invention
2 Brief, page 3.
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