Appeal No. 1997-0704
Application No. 08/324,855
57). The cited disclosure of McKeever lists a disclosure of
monomers which "can be used as the sole monomer or in
combination with others" (column 8, lines 28-29). However,
this generic disclosure of McKeever does not list monomers
from each class as required by the claims on appeal. 3
McKeever does disclose an ethoxylated bisphenol A diacrylate
used in the specific examples (column 16, lines 54-55).
However, the examiner has not established how this specific
listing of a monomer "clearly and unequivocally" discloses the
combination of this specific monomer with a monomer from the
first class of monomers in the method of claim 35 on appeal,
much less in the amounts recited in the claimed method. See
Arkley, supra. The examiner has not pointed to any examples
in McKeever which combine monomers from the two classes
recited in claim 35 on appeal, in the amounts recited in the
claimed method. Accordingly, the rejection of claims 35,
37-41, 45-48 and 51-54 under § 102(e) over McKeever is
3The specific bisphenol-A monomers recited in claim 35 on
appeal are not listed in the generic disclosure of McKeever,
who instead lists various tetrachloro-/tetrabromo-bisphenol-A
ethers and “bisphenol A diacrylate” (column 8, lines 36-41 and
50-51).
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