Appeal No. 96-3726
Application No. 08/074,009
This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection
of claims 1, 2, 10, 11 and 19 which are all of the claims
remaining in the application.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method of
reforming a surface of a plastic article to provide a leather-
like touch to the surface of the plastic article comprising
coating the surface with a polyurethane paint made of
polyester polyol and hexamethylene diisocyanate to thereby
form a coated film having certain characteristics. Further
details of this appealed subject matter are set forth in
representative independent claim 1, a copy of which taken from
the appellants’ brief is appended to this decision.
The references relied upon by the examiner in the
rejections before us are:
Wagner et al. 3,836,423 Sep. 17, 1974
(Wagner)
Manabe et al. 4,551,387 Nov. 5, 1985
(Manabe)
All of the appealed claims stand rejected under the first
paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 “as failing to provide an
adequate written description of the invention” (answer, page 2
and page 3).
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