Appeal No. 2006-0894 Page 5
Application No. 10/412,840
Appellants do not dispute that Erickson discloses, inter
alia, a process for coating and curing an adhesive on a substrate
or liner. Moreover, the examiner has found that Erickson’s
adhesive is both pressure sensitive and cationic curable, as
required in representative claim 1. Appellants do not contest
that determination by the examiner. Rather, appellants maintain
that: (1) Erickson does not disclose using a backing substrate or
release liner that has low moisture content, and (2) Erickson
does not disclose that the adhesive coated substrate/liner is
allowed to cure under low moisture conditions, as recited in
claim 1. We disagree.
As generally explained by the examiner in the answer (pages
3-8), Erickson discloses using Mylar , an intrinsically low 1
moisture content film material, as a substrate/liner on which the
adhesive, an epoxidized block copolymer, is coated and cured.
See, e.g., Examples 1-6 of Erickson and the other portions of
Erickson referred to by the examiner in the answer. The
representative claim 1 requirement for a low moisture content
1Mylar is a polyester plastic film that intrinsically
possesses the property of low moisture absorption. See Kirk-
Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (fourth edition),
Volume 17, pages 1034-36, particularly Table 7 at page 1034 (copy
attached).
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