Appeal No. 2003-0566
Application No. 09/395,072
and Rosenberry for the purpose of indicating the cure point of
the floor coating compositions.
The thrust of appellants' arguments is that Field is non-
analogous art to the floor coating compositions of Friedlander
and Rosenberry inasmuch as it "is directed to the coating of
electronic components such as printed circuit boards, electrical
connectors and electrical splices" (page 5 of principal brief,
last paragraph). According to appellants,
the use by Field et al. of dyes to indicate color
changes in coatings of relatively small electrical
components such as circuit boards, electrical
connectors and electrical splices is a far cry from the
use of color indications for the concrete floor
industry and specified in the claims as [sic, at] issue
[page 6 of principal brief, second paragraph].
However, we agree with the examiner that Field is analogous art
insofar as it is directed to acrylate-containing UV curable
compositions, as are the disclosures of Friedlander and
Rosenberry. In addition, we find that appellants offer a much
too narrow interpretation of Field. In our view, Field provides
a more general teaching that finds applicability in fields other
than printed circuit boards, electrical connectors, etc. We
come to this conclusion because Field expressly discloses that
the invention "relates to a method of curing compositions by
ultraviolet radiation" (column 1, lines 12-13), and the
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