Appeal 2006-2774
Application 10/309,493
Claims 1, 3-5, and 6-26 are pending (Br. 1). Claims 6-26 are
withdrawn from consideration as being directed to a non-elected invention
(Br. 1). Claims 1 and 3-5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
obvious over Erismann (US 2002/0171068) in view of Nienaber (US
6,352,770 B1) and Gee (US 4,620,878) (Answer 3).
All the claims stand or fall together because Appellant has not
provided separate reasons for the patentability of any individual claims in
the grouping. We select claim 1 as representative for the purpose of
deciding this appeal. See 37 C.F.R. § 41.37 (c)(1)(vii). Claim 1 reads as
follows:
l. A fire protection coating composition capable of being applied with
the ease of a conventional paint, comprising:
(a) a char forming material selected from the group of: a starch, a
sugar, a mono pentaerythritol, a di pentaerythritol, a tri pentaerythritol,
molybdenum, organometallocenes, or antimony trioxide;
(b) a char reinforcement material selected from the group of: a glass
flake, a glass fiber, a silica fiber, a silica powder, or a fumed silica;
(c) a catalyst or accelerator material selected from the group of: urea
phosphate, melamine phosphate, di ammonium polyphosphate, a monobasic
ammonium phosphate, di-basic ammonium phosphate, hemi-basic
ammonium phosphate, or a urea ammonium phosphate;
(d) a blowing agent selected from the group of: urea, p-toluene
sulfonyl hydrazide, dicyndiamide, azodicarbonamide, di aminophenizine,
cyanurotriamide, cyanoguanidine, borax, zinc carbonate, and chlorinated
paraffin;
(e) a binder selected from the group of: acrylics, vinyl acrylics, vinyl
chloride - ethylene copolymers, chlorosulfonated polyethylene,
polyvinylidene chloride, vinyl toluene - acrylic or acrylate copolymers,
ethylene vinyl chloride, vinyl acetate - vinyl chloride - ethylene terpolymers,
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