Appeal No. 1997-2384 Page 2
Application No. 08/430,083
BACKGROUND
At the outset, we note that the present application was
filed as a divisional of U.S. application No. 08/265,369,
which parent application was filed on June 24, 1994. Also,
copending and related application No. 08/376,270 was filed on
January 23, 1995 as a continuation-in-part of the above-noted
parent application. Both of the above-noted related and
copending applications are also before us on appeal (Appeals
No. 1997-1907 and 1997-1991, respectively) . 2
Appellants' invention relates to a method of coating a
substrate using a composition comprising a dispersion of
polyurethane in water. An understanding of the invention can
be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 15, which is
reproduced below.
2We observe that appellants refer to parent application
No. 08/265,369 at page 2 of the brief submitted on October 21,
1996 without acknowledging the existence of the other related
copending application No. 08/376,270 and without setting forth
the appealed status of all of the above-noted applications.
See 37 C.F.R. § 1.192(c)(2) (1995).
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