Appeal No. 1997-3282
Application No. 08/189,314
(column 2, lines 30-47).
With respect to independent claim 1, the examiner relies
on Shibano to teach all the elements of the claimed invention
"except [] the acrylate-based pressure sensitive [sic,
adhesive] (PSA) [being] thermosettable" (answer, page 3). The
examiner introduces Kitano to teach "the advantage of using
epoxy-acrylate thermosetting PSA that exhibits excellent
adhesions, high shear and peel strengths, and excellent
storage properties" (answer, page 3). The examiner asserts,
and the appellant does not refute, that it would have been
obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to "utilize
Kitano's teaching of using a thermosetting PSA comprising [an]
acrylate-epoxy blend in the invention of Shibano" (answer,
page 3).
Appellant's primary argument is that Shibano fails to
teach, expressly or inherently, a polyolefin having the
particular CDBI or comonomer/copolymer distribution content
set forth in claim 1 on appeal. As a general proposition in
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