Appeal No. 1997-3376
Application No. 08/176,187
apolar segment and at least one ion binding segment as a
continuous phase, wherein the block copolymer is present in an
amount of from about 50 to about 99 percent by weight (based on
the combined weight of the block copolymer and the aromatic or
heteroaromatic polymer) and provides micellar or vesicular
domains for organization and polymerization of the monomer or
monomers making up the aromatic or heteroaromatic polymer, and
wherein the bulk or surface electrical conductivity of the
composite is homogeneous and isotropic. According to appellants,
the block copolymers “enable formation of conductive composites
with discrete uniformly dispersed domains of the conductive
polymer therein and thereby afford the desired stability,
conductivity, an [sic, and] melt processibility of the composite ”
(principal brief, page 4).
Appealed claims 1-5, 7-14, 16-19, and 25 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the combined teachings
of Bates and Naarmann or the combined teachings of Bates,
Naarmann, Cross, Vincent, Armes ‘162, Armes ‘180, and Armes
‘193.2
2 The statement of rejection (answer, page 3) does not
positively include Armes ‘162 as one of the relied upon references.
However, this omission also appears to have been inadvertent, because
Armes ‘162 is listed under “Prior Art of Record” (answer, page 3) and
was applied in the final rejection (final Office action, pages 2-3).
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