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and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte CHRISTIAN LACH and ROLAND BAUMSTARK
Appeal No. 2004-1348
Application No. 09/972,253
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, GARRIS and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-11.
Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. A water-based, pigmented coating composition essentially
free from volatile organic compounds and comprising
i) an aqueous binder formulation as component I, with a
minimum film formation temperature MFFT # 5°C, based
on an aqueous polymer dispersion of one or more
polymers P composed of
from 90 to 99.9% by weight of at least two different monomer
varieties A1 and A2, the monomer A1 being selected from
the C2-C12 alkyl esters of acrylic acid and the monomer
-1-
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