Appeal No. 2001-2093
Application No. 09/054,134
Raymond B. Seymour and Charles E. Carraher, Jr., Polymer
Chemistry: An Introduction 467 (2nd ed., Marcel Dekker Inc.
1987)(Seymour).
The appellants, on the other hand, rely on the following
references as evidence of nonobviousness (appeal brief filed
Oct. 20, 2000, paper 24, page 6):
Seymour, supra.
Donald J. Cram and George S. Hammond, Organic Chemistry 429 (2nd
ed., McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1964)(Cram).
Robert T. Morrison and Robert N. Boyd, Organic Chemistry 701 (2nd
ed., Allyn and Bacon, Inc. 1966)(Morrison).
“Ion Exchange Polymers,” in 7 Encyclopedia of Polymer Science
and Technology 702 (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1967).
Claims 5 through 8 and 11 through 20 on appeal stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over DE ’715
in view of Günter.1 (Answer, pages 3-7.)
We affirm this rejection.2
As pointed out by the examiner (answer, pages 3-4), the
appellants concede that DE ’715 describes a process for the
preparation of strongly basic anion exchange polymers comprising
1 In our decision, we cite to the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office English language translation of DE ’715 as found in the
record.
2 The appellants submit that “[c]laims 5-8 and 11-20 are
appealed together.” (Appeal brief, p. 2.) We understand this
statement to mean that the appealed claims stand or fall
together. Accordingly, we confine our discussion to claim 5.
37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(1997).
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