Appeal No. 2001-0106
Application 08/855,811
(Rejection H) Claims 6 and 7 are further rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Iliou in view of Thomson further in view of Hahn.
(Rejection D) Claim 6 is individually rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Iliou in view of either Pleuddemann or Hahn.
Discussion of Category A Rejections
For the rejections in category A, the Examiner notes that:
Rejection (E)
Claims 1, 3, 5, 8 and 10 stand further rejected under 35 USC 103 as being
unpatentable [over] the teachings of the U.S. Patents to Bruder in view of
Thomson.
Bruder (U.S. 4,502,903) discloses that it is known to bond/adhere a
conductive, adhesive, plastic layer to a metal substrate. (abstract, column 1, lines
41-55, column 3, line 66 through column 4, line 53). It would have been obvious
to one of ordinary skill in this art to employ the aminosilane compound/coupling
agent of Thomson for its documented, beneficial coupling and/or adhesion
promoting function in/in [sic] conjunction with the process of Bruder. (Examiner’s
Answer, page 6, lines 11 – 15).
Rejection (I)
[The rejection is] repeated, with the addition of Hahn et al as a secondary
reference … . Note that these patentees clearly disclose (N.B. column 1, lines
32-46) that organosilane compounds (i.e. coupling agents) are appreciated by
this art to/by definition form a bond between an inorganic substrate and a
polymer layer by interacting/reacting/coupling with both substrate and polymer.
This reference is specifically applied primarily for the sake of exposition and
completeness (Examiner’s Answer, page 7, lines 1-8)(emphasis in original).
and
Rejection (F)
Claim 6 stands further rejected under 35 USC 103 as being unpatentable
over the teachings of the U.S. Patents to Iliou et al in view of either Pleuddemann
or Hahn et al.
The Examiner’s position is that it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art to employ the silane compound/coupling agent of either
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