Appeal No. 1996-2734 Page 2
Application No. 08/133,680
stripping solvent, a nucleophilic amine and a reducing agent
selected from among a given list thereof (See, e.g., claim
15). As a result of the inclusion of about 0.1 to about 10% by
weight of a reducing agent from the list provided in the total
composition, appellants allege that the stripping composition
is capable of reducing or inhibiting metal corrosion if and
when the composition is used in removing certain photoresists
from substrates containing metal (paragraph bridging pages 2
and 3 of the specification).
Appellants indicate that the patentability of dependent
claims 18 and 19 stand or fall with claim 17 and that claims
15-17 should be considered separately (brief, page 4).
However, appellants have not separately argued the
patentability of dependent claims 16-19 with any reasonable
degree of specificity. See 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7) and
(c)(8)(iv) (1995). Accordingly, dependent claims 16-19 stand
or fall with claim 15. See In re Nielson, 816 F.2d 1567,
1571, 2 USPQ2d 1525, 1527 (Fed. Cir. 1987). Claim 15, the
sole independent claim before us and the representative claim
on which we decide this appeal, is reproduced below.
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