Appeal No. 1998-0652
Application No. 08/188,417
appellants and by the examiner concerning the above noted
rejection.
OPINION
This rejection cannot be sustained.
As correctly argued by the appellants in their briefs,
Budzinski contains no teaching or suggestion of a polymer
composition which includes at least one polyvinylidene
fluoride homopolymer and at least one thermoplastic copolymer
of vinylidene fluoride. We appreciate that the paragraph
bridging columns 2 and 3 of this patent describes patentee’s
plastisol composition as containing various types of polyvinyl
resins including polyvinylidene fluoride and copolymers
thereof. However, the examiner refers to nothing and we find
nothing in this reference which, in our view, would have
suggested using any of these resins in combination much less
using polyvinylidene fluoride homopolymer in combination with
a thermoplastic copolymer of vinylidene fluoride as required
by the appealed claims.
With the foregoing in mind, it is apparent that the
applied reference is likewise deficient in that it contains no
teaching or suggestion concerning the here claimed amounts of
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