Appeal No. 2005-0181
Application No. 09/781,631
With regard to claims 35, 56, and 66, the examiner states
that these claims now recite that the epoxy resin is “selected
from the group of epoxy resins consisting of polyimides, cyanate
esters and combinations thereof”.3 The examiner asserts that the
specification fails to teach such a group of epoxy resins. The
examiner refers to pages 3-4 of the specification, and states
that the specification discloses “epoxies, cyanate esters and
bis-maleimides cyanate esters-epoxy polyimides”, as three
separate types of resins, not that cyanate esters and
bismaleimides cyanate esters-epoxy polyimides are part of the
epoxy group.
On pages 5-6 of the brief, appellant argues that support for
the cyanate esters and epoxy polyimides discussed on pages 3 and
4 of the specification, can be found at the top of page 4 of the
specification, wherein reference is made to U.S. Patent No.
6,106,891.
On page 11 of the answer, the examiner responds and states
that appellant refers generally to U.S. Patent No. 6,106,891 as
providing support for claims 35, 56 and 66, but fails to indicate
the location in this patent where support can be found and the
examiner states that she cannot find such support in this patent.
The examiner refers to the top of column 3 of U.S. Patent No.
6,106,891, which refers to “epoxies, polyimides, and cyanates”,
and states this disclosure does not teach an epoxy resin selected
from the group consisting of polyimides and cyanate esters.
We find that the paragraph bridging pages 3-4 of appellant’s
specification indicates that the organic materials may include
“epoxies, cyanate esters, bismaleimides cyanate esters-epoxies
3 We note that claims 56 and 66 recite this language, while claim 35
recites “including at least one epoxy resin material selected from a
group of epoxy resin materials consisting of . . .”.
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