Appeal No. 1996-3942 Page 4
Application No. 08/095,306
through column 3, line 23). The examiner acknowledges that
Tumey does not disclose the specific 100% solids radiation
curable resin of one or more vinyl ether monomers and/or
oligomers used as a coat and/or backing material saturant in
an abrasive article as claimed herein.
Rejection over Tumey in view of Palazzotto
With respect to the first stated rejection, the examiner
notes that Palazzotto is not directed to making an abrasive
article. Nonetheless, the examiner is of the opinion that
Palazzotto does teach vinyl ethers as part of an energy
curable composition and "...suggests utilities of the
resulting composition as impregnating and coating compounds
which embraces the instant saturant material" (answer, page
3). In the examiner's view (answer, page 3),
... it would have been obvious and fully within the
purview of one having ordinary skill in the art to
use the specific vinyl ethers disclosed in US-101 in
place of the generic ether group-containing
ethylenically unsaturated compounds in US-832
motivated by the reasonable expectation of success
since both references are related to the analogous
art of radiation curable compositions.
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