Appeal No. 2003-1625
Application No. 09/341,669
earth salts of phosphonic acid, aluminum salts of phosphinic
acid, aluminum salts of phosphonic acid, ammonium salts of
phosphinic acid, and ammonium salts of phosphonic acid,
wherein the ammonium salts may be substituted with up to
four C1- to C4-alkyl and/or C5- to C8-cycloalkyl groups, and
wherein a molding of 100 mm thickness prepared from
said molding composition has a transmission of 89-92%, and
wherein the yellow index according to DIN 6167
(D65/10E) or according to ASTM D 1925 of a molding of 100 mm
thickness prepared from said molding composition is at least
40% lower than a molding of 100 mm thickness prepared from
said molding composition without said one or more reducing
inorganic phosphorus compounds.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the
examiner in the Section 102 and Section 103 rejections before us:
Wanat 5,063,259 Nov. 5, 1991
Numrich et al. (Numrich) 5,726,245 Mar. 10, 1998
Claim 32 stands rejected under the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C.
§ 112 as containing subject matter which was not described in the
specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one
skilled in the relevant art that the inventors, at the time the
application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
According to the examiner, the subject matter in question
constitutes the negative claim limitation “which is not a
core/shell polymer” vis-à-vis the polymer encompassed by claim
32.
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