Appeal No. 2006-3248 Page 6
Application No. 10/617,585
Specification, page 6, lines 9-23. It is also consistent with our own construction of the
term. We find this same meaning in the cited Barkac1 patent which defines the
functional groups as “capable of reacting and forming covalent bonds” with the
crosslinking agent. Barkac, column 3, lines 45-52. Accordingly, this rejection is
reversed.
Anticipation
Claims 1-16, 18-21, and 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
anticipated by Barkac.
Barkac describes a thermosetting composition comprising a polycarboxylic acid
functional polymer and a beta-hydroxyalkylamide crosslinking agent. Barkac, Abstract.
The polycarboxylic acid functional polymer is “prepared by atom transfer radical
polymerization initiated in the presence of an initiator.” Id., column 3, lines 2-4. The
polymer is a chain of M and G residues, where the M residue is free of carboxylic acid
functionality and the G residue has carboxylic acid functionally. Id., column 3, lines
9-18. The M and G residues are derived from ethylenically unsaturated radically
polymerizable monomers. Id. The phrase “ethylenically unsaturated radically
polymerizable monomer” is “meant to include vinyl monomers, allylic monomers, olefins
and other ethylenically unsaturated monomers that are radically polymerizable.”
Id., column 9, lines 27-31. Preferred examples of M residues are alkyl (meth)acrylates.
Id., column 9, lines 37-39. Residue G is typically derived from alkyl (meth)acrylates,
preferably from C1-C4 alkyl (meth)acrylates, which can be hydrolyzed after
1 Barkac et al. (Barkac), U.S. Pat. No. 6,339,126, issued Jan. 15, 2002
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