The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte HUBERRUS KRONER, WOLFGANG KLANIG,
BRADLEY RONALD MORRISON, RAINER KLOSTERMANN,
HOLGER SCHOPKE and WALTER KASTENHUBER
Appeal No. 2002-0865
Application No. 08/940,996
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, PAK and OWENS, Administrative Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 2-6 and
11-18. Claim 11 is illustrative:
11. A process for preparing homo- or copolymers of at least
one of the polymerizable monomers of the group consisting of
styrene, butadiene, vinyl chloride, vinyl acetate, vinylidene
chloride, alkyl (meth)acrylate (meth)acrylic acid,
(meth)acrylonitrile and (meth)acrylamide in an emulsion
polymerization technique at at least 40°C in the presence of a
dispersing auxiliary and of a free-radical polymerization
initiator, which comprises preparing the polymer, at least 85% by
weight of which is formed from one or more of these monomers, in
the following states, where
-1-
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