The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 17 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte BERND MAYER, MICHAEL GRABBE, HEINZ RINK and UWE MEISENBURG __________ Appeal No. 1998-3147 Application 08/564,304 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before KIMLIN, OWENS and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-16, which are all of the claims in the application. THE INVENTION The appellants claim a process for preparing a polyurethane in the presence of ethoxyethyl propionate as a 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007