Appeal No. 2002-2317
Application No. 09/025,607
canceled after the final rejection (amendment filed September 9,
2002, paper no. 33). The examiner stated in the final rejection
(mailed December 17, 2001, paper no. 28, page 4) that if claim 52
were placed in statutory form it would be withdrawn from
consideration. For this reason and because the statement of the
rejections in both the appellants’ brief (page 9) and the
examiner’s answer (page 3) do not include claim 52, we do not
consider this claim to be on appeal. Thus, the claims before us
are claims 1-4, 7-10, 12-22, 24, 28, 29, and 45-48.
THE INVENTION
The appellants claim a hot-melt pressure-sensitive adhesive
composition and methods for making hot-melt adhesive
compositions. Claims 1, 45 and 47 are illustrative:
1. A hot-melt pressure-sensitive adhesive composition,
comprising a blend of:
an acidic copolymer derived from a first group of
monomers comprising at least one acidic monomer; and
a basic copolymer derived from a second group of
monomers comprising at least one basic monomer,
wherein at least one of the first and second group of
monomers comprises greater than 25% by weight of acidic
or basic monomers, respectively, and
wherein one of the acidic copolymer and the basic
copolymer comprises up to about 5% by weight of the
blend.
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