Appeal No. 1997-0704
Application No. 08/324,855
which states that the final rejection under § 112 for “new
matter” is
overcome by entry of this amendment). Claims 28 through 34,
the only other claims remaining in this application, stand
withdrawn from further consideration by the examiner (Brief,
page 3).
According to appellants, the invention is directed to a
combination of specified monomer classes to achieve a thermal
stabilization of an optically transparent waveguide such that
the waveguide exhibits much less yellowing, cracking and
delamination from the substrate (Brief, page 6). Claim 35 is
illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
this claim is attached as an Appendix to this decision.
The examiner has relied upon the following references to
support the rejections on appeal:
Dueber et al. (Dueber) 4,613,560 Sep. 23,
1986
Kistner 4,623,676 Nov. 18,
1986
Klun et al. (Klun) 4,956,265 Sep. 11,
1990
Moyer et al. (Moyer) 5,136,682 Aug. 4,
1992
McKeever et al. (McKeever) 5,288,589 Feb. 22,
1994
(filed Dec. 3,
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