Appeal No. 2003-1795
Application No. 09/821,702
APPEALED SUBJECT MATTER
According to the appellants (Brief, page 3):
Pending claims 1-15 stand or fall together for the
argument presented by Applicants. Applicants’ argument
relates to the issue presented above for claims 1-15,
and claim 1 is representative of the claims.
Therefore, for purposes of this appeal, we select claim 1 from
all of the claims on appeal and decide the propriety of the
examiner’s rejection based on this claim alone consistent with
37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(2002). Claim 1 is provided below:
1. A crosslinkable composition comprising:
from 50 to 98 percent by weight of an epoxidized
monohydroxylated polydiene polymer which is comprised of at least
two polymerizable ethenically unsaturated hydrocarbon monomers
wherein at least one is a diene monomer which yields substituted
aliphatic double bonds that are epoxidized; and
from 50 to 2 percent by weight of an amino resin.
PRIOR ART REFERENCES
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies on the
following prior art references:
Richards et al. (Richards) 4,518,753 May 21, 1985
Coolbaugh et al. (Coolbaugh) 5,149,895 Sep. 22, 1992
Erickson et al. (Erickson) 5,229,464 Jul. 20, 1993
Handlin, Jr. et al. (Handlin) 5,376,745 Dec. 27, 1994
Masse et al. (Masse) 5,478,885 Dec. 26, 1995
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