Appeal No. 1996-1072
Application 08/132,289
19932
Nichols 5,290,570 Mar. 1,
19943
Chemical Abstracts No. CA115(13):134400g, abstract of Fed.
Regist. 56(137), 32514-15, July 17, 1991 (EPA).
GAF brochure (GAF), “Specialty Products for Personal Care:
Ganex WP-660 Resin - New Water-Proofing Polymer” 1-8 (GAF®
Chemicals Corp. 1990).
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1-5, 9, 11-15 and 19 stand rejected as follows:
1) under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, enablement
requirement, 2) under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Gallagher in view
of Flashinski and GAF, and 3) under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over
Flashinski, Nichols or Bedlock, in view of Shih and EPA.4
OPINION
We have carefully considered all of the arguments
2 Continuation of application filed April 9, 1990.
3Continuation of application filed November 29, 1990,
which is a continuation-in-part of application filed May 30,
1989.
4 The Jacquet et al., Bolich, Jr., Login, Metravers and
Duraback et al. secondary references relied upon in the final
rejection (page 4) are not applied in the rejection in the
examiner’s answer. We consider these references to be
withdrawn from the rejection.
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