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               Appeal No. 2005-0359                                                                                             
               Application No. 09/333,917                                                                                       


                            Appealed Claim 1                                          Hari                                      
               “low-odor, cold-curing (meth)acrylate reaction      polymerizable, cold-setting, reactive                        
               resin for a floor coating, consisting of”           (meth)acrylate system for conductive floor                   
                                                                   coatings (col. 1, ll. 6-8); maximum amount                   
                                                                   of styrene preferably limited to 20% by                      
                                                                   wt. to avoid “considerable odor problems”                    
                                                                   (col. 3, ll. 36-38)                                          
               “(A) (a) 50-100 wt% of a (meth)acrylate consisting  (A) >50-100% by wt. of a monomeric                           
               of                                                  component consisting essentially of                          
                      0-5 wt% of a methyl (meth)acrylate           (meth)acrylate and/or other monomers,                        
                      0-5 wt% of an ethyl (meth)acrylate           0-100% by wt. methyl (meth)acrylate                          
                      0-97 wt% of a C3-C6 (meth)acrylate           0-100% by wt. C2-C4 (meth)acrylate                           
                      0-50 wt% of ≥C7 (meth)acrylate               0-50% by wt. ≥C5 (meth)acrylate                              
                      3-10 wt% of a multifunctional                0-100% by wt. polyhydric (meth)acrylates                     
                      (meth)acrylate; and                          and                                                          
               (b) 0-50 wt% of a comonomer consisting of           comonomers including the following:                          
                      0-30 wt% of a vinyl aromatic; and            0-30% by wt. vinyl aromatics                                 
                      0-30 wt% of a vinyl ester”                   0-30% by wt. vinyl esters (col. 2, ll. 39-                   
                                                                   50)                                                          
               “(B) 0-2 parts by weight per 1 part by weight of    (B) 0-2 parts of a (pre)polymer which is                     
               Component (A) of a pre-polymer that dissolves or    soluble or capable of swelling in                            
               swells in (A)”                                      Component (A) for each part of (A) (col.                     
                                                                   2, ll. 52-53)                                                
               “wherein the proportion of methyl (meth)acrylate    0-100% by wt. methyl (meth)acrylate                          
               or ethyl (meth)acrylate is less than 5 wt% based    0-100% by wt. C2-C4 (meth)acrylate (col. 3,                  
               on Component (B)”                                   ll. 29-30)                                                   
               “(C) 2-5 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight    0-7% by wt. of a plasticizer such as                         
               based on Components (A) + (B) of at least one       chlorinated paraffin; 0.05-5% by wt. of                      
               paraffin and/or wax”                                paraffin (col. 4, ll. 41-58)                                 
               “(D) a redox system, containing an accelerator and  (D) a redox system to be kept apart from                     
               a peroxide catalyst or initiator in an amount that  the polymerizable constituents of the                        
               is adequate for cold-curing of Component (A)”       system until polymerization is to be                         
                                                                   carried out, at least in respect of one                      
                                                                   component of the redox system, the redox                     
                                                                   system containing an accelerator and a                       
                                                                   peroxide catalyst or initiator in a                          
                                                                   quantity sufficient for the cold-setting                     
                                                                   of component (A) (col. 2, ll. 56-61)                         
               “(E) optionally, at least one conventional          (E) customary additives (col. 2, l. 62)                      
               additive”                                                                                                        
               “wherein the multifunctional (meth)acrylate and     most preferably 1-10% by wt. of                              
               component (C) are together present in an amount     polyfunctional (meth)acrylates (col. 4,                      
               effective for the reaction resin, when applied to   ll. 10-13; col. 4, ll. 54-64; col. 5, ll.                    
               concrete at a thickness of approximately 1 cm and   64-66)                                                       
               set at ambient temperature for 90 minutes, to be                                                                 
               non-tacky”                                                                                                       

                      As seen from the table above, the appellants’ recited                                                     

               relative amounts for each of the components including the                                                        

               monomeric constituents are either substantially identical or                                                     

               overlap significantly with those disclosed for Hari’s                                                            



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