THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION The opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 19 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte MOHAMAD D. SHALATI, JAMES A. MARQUART, JOHN R. BABJAK and RODNEY M. HARRIS _____________ Appeal No. 1996-0438 Application 08/090,343 ______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before KIMLIN, GARRIS and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges. KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 26- 29 and 34-37. Claims 30-32, the other claims remaining in the present application, have been allowed by the examiner. Claim 26 is illustrative: 26. A curable composition which comprises: (i) an anhydride-functional compound having an average of at least two cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride groups per molecule; andPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007