Appeal No. 2005-2522 Page 4
Application No. 09/841,453
noted that “appellants refer (reply brief, pages 1-4) to the
Board Decision in appeal No. 2003-1366" and we responded by
stating that the earlier “Decision was based on a different
evidentiary record” and “we decline appellants’ invitation to
apply that Decision to this appeal.” In the Request, appellants
have not addressed the above-noted reasoning set forth in our
decision, much less stated “with particularity the points
believed to have been misapprehended or overlooked by the Board”
in rendering our decision as required by 37 CFR § 41.52.
We reiterate that Grainger makes it clear that the
hydrophobic, protective films disclosed therein can be applied to
a variety of diverse surfaces that include surface oxygen or
hydroxide groups, including microporous structures via reaction
(chemical adherence or chemisorption) with a surface, such as of
a circuit board or other microelectronic device as we noted at
pages 6-8, 10, 12, and 14 of our Decision.
Moreover, we note that Grainger is not limited to using long
polymeric molecules made by a Langmuir-Blodgett technique as
reargued in the Request but rather can employ polymers of a
the here claimed subject matter.
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007