Appeal No. 1998-3101
Application 08/313,175
THE INVENTION
The appellants’ claimed invention is directed toward a
copolymer which, the appellants state, is useful as a
thickener or dispersant in cosmetic, pharmaceutical and
industrial applications (specification, page 8, lines 33-35).
Claim 1 is illustrative and is appended to this decision.
THE REFERENCE
Snow et al. (Snow) 4,463,080 Jul. 31,
1984
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 3 and 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first and second paragraphs, on the grounds that the claimed
invention is not described in such full, clear, concise and
exact terms as to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to
make and use the same, and/or for failing to particularly
point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the
appellants regard
as the invention, and under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated1
1In the examiner’s answer, the rejections under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first and second paragraphs, are applied to claims 1-3.
These grounds of rejection were applied to claims 1-4 in the
final rejection (paper no. 8), and the examiner has given no
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