Appeal No. 1997-3036
Application No. 08/268,094
1995, Paper No. 12). These are the only claims pending in this application.
We Reverse.
The Invention
The appellants' invention relates to an epoxy acrylate for use in photoresist formulations.
(Specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the
appellants' brief. Claim 11, the only pending independent claim, is illustrative of the invention.
As shown in claim 11, when n is 0 in the epoxy acrylate of formula III the formula is reduced to
Q-L where Q is hydrogen and L possesses an acrylate end group. When n ranges from 1 to 300
in the epoxy acrylate of formula III, Q and L may independently possess glycidyl or acrylate end
groups and the epoxy acrylate possesses side radicals M where at least 10 mol% of the radicals M
that are not present in the end groups Q and L denote an acrylate moiety. Claim 11 reads as
follows:
11. (New) An epoxy acrylate of formula (III) for use in photoresist formulations
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