Appeal No. 2007-0111
Reexamination 90/006,297
1 24227 and 25109 filed in Italy on June 8, 1954 and July 27, 1954,
2 respectively.
3 15. While identified as continuations, the disclosures of the chain of
4 applications leading to the ‘687 patent are not all identical.
5 16. The text of the ‘687 patent appears to contain a printing error in that
6 the description at page 5, lines 3-8 of the specification is missing.
7 17. Our March 30, 2005 Decision at 13-49 discussed how the long chain
8 of applications resulted from the patentees’ numerous abandonments
9 and re-filings of continuation or divisional applications containing
10 claims of substantially different scope.
11 18. Early in the prosecution, in Application 03/514,097, the patentees
12 submitted claims directed to “[a] process for polymerizing unsaturated
13 hydrocarbons of the general formula CH2=CHR in which R is selected
14 from the group consisting of saturated aliphatic, alicyclic and aromatic
15 radicals [i.e., C3 or higher unsaturated hydrocarbons], alone, in
16 admixture with one another, or in admixture with small amounts of
17 other olefinic monomers copolymerizable therewith” (emphasis
18 added) to form a polymer having a specified structure. (March 30,
19 2005 Decision at 17.)
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