Appeal No. 2002-2317
Application No. 09/025,607
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected as follows: claims 1-4, 7-10,
12-22, 24, 28, 29, 45 and 47 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
anticipated by or, in the alternative, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
obvious over Murdock, and claims 1-4, 7-10, 12-22, 24, 28, 29 and
45-48 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Uraneck or EP ‘082.
OPINION
We reverse the rejections over Murdock, reverse the
rejection over Uraneck, reverse the rejection of claims 1-4,
7-10, 12-22, 24, 28 and 29 over EP ‘082, and affirm the rejection
of claims 45-48 over EP ‘082.
Rejections over Murdock
Claims 1-4, 7-10, 12-22, 24, 28, 29
We need to address only claim 1. Claims 2-4, 7-10, 12-22
and 24 depend directly or indirectly from claim 1, and claims 28
and 29 claim articles having a substrate coated with the
composition of claim 1.2
Murdock discloses a composition comprising a blend of an
acidic copolymer derived from a first group of monomers
2 For this reason we need to address only claim 1 in our discussion of
the rejections of claims 1-4, 7-10, 12-22, 24, 28, 29 over Uraneck and over
EP ‘082.
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