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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte MICHAEL TARVIN and MICHAEL A. RAU
Appeal No. 2003-0566
Application No. 09/395,072
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, GARRIS and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 21-30,
all the claims remaining in the present application. Claim 21 is
illustrative:
21. A method of forming a solid floor coating from a liquid
wherein the solid floor coating has a distinctively different
color with respect to the color of the liquid to signify the
change of the liquid to a solid, comprising applying an acrylate-
containing ultraviolet (UV) curable liquid material to a floor
surface, the acrylate-containing UV curable liquid material
containing not less than 90% by weight acrylate and not less than
0.001% by weight of a dye or not less than about 0.05% by weight
pigment, and subjecting the acrylate-containing UV curable liquid
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