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today was not written for publication and is not binding
precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte CALUM H. MUNRO,
CHARLES M. KANIA and UMESH C. DESAI
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Appeal No. 2006-0483
Application 09/860,272
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ON BRIEF
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Before GARRIS, WARREN and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judges.
WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.
Decision on Appeal
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the decision of the examiner finally
rejecting claims 1 through 4, 7 through 19, 23 through 25 and 27 through 31, all of the claims in
the application.
Claim 1 illustrates appellants’ invention of a coating composition and is representative of
the claims on appeal:
1. A coating composition comprising a dispersion of particles comprising polymers
produced from monomers having different glass transition temperatures, the difference in glass
transition temperatures ranging from 50 to 260°C, and exhibiting phase segregation between
areas of differing glass transition temperature within each particle, such that when said coating
composition is applied to a substrate, said particles form a geometrically ordered array and said
coating composition, when dried, is capable of dissipating frequencies of sound in the range of
about 400 to about 20,000 Hz.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
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