Appeal No. 96-3938
Application No. 08/288,861
radial block polymer used in the Debier . . . patent” (brief,
page 6). However, Debier generically discloses block
copolymers of the type under consideration and, for this
reason alone, would have suggested linear as well as branched
copolymers specifically, and again the appellant’s brief
contains no reasonably specific arguments to the contrary.
More significantly with respect to appealed claim 18, Debier
explicitly discloses branched block copolymers in Illustrative
Embodiment 1 as correctly noted by the examiner in his answer.
Under the circumstances recounted above, it is
appropriate that we sustain the examiner’s section 103
rejection of claims 10 through 25 as being unpatentable over
Debier in view of Minamizaki, Tang, Diehl or Kamiya.
The decision of the examiner is affirmed.
No time period for taking any subsequent action in
connection with this appeal may be extended under
37 CFR § 1.136(a).
AFFIRMED
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