Appeal No. 2007-0111
Reexamination 90/006,297
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2 91. In addition, the ‘097 specification stated (page 6):
3 It has been found, also, that even when ethylene is
4 polymerized with the aid of the special promoters
5 obtained by reaction of the heavy metal and metal alkyl
6 compounds, in the ratios proposed for promoting
7 ethylene polymerization, the presence of any substantial
8 amount of the higher olefines inhibits polymerization of
9 the ethylene, while the higher olefines, if they react at all,
10 do so only at very low reaction rates and, in any case,
11 without yielding polymers of the type with which this
12 invention is concerned. [Emphasis added.]
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14 92. The ‘097 specification states (page 12):
15 The method of this invention may be used for
16 polymerizing vinyl hydrocarbons of the formula given
17 including propylene, butene-1, pentene-1, hexene-1,
18 styrene, and so on, as well as mixtures thereof and
19 mixtures of the vinyl hydrocarbon with small amounts of
20 ethylene. [Emphasis added.]
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22 93. Application 03/710,840 contained the following (specification, page
23 1):
24 This invention relates to a process for polymerizing
25 unsaturated hydrocarbons of the formula
26 CH2 = CHR
27 in which R is a saturated aliphatic, an alicyclic or an
28 aromatic radical, alone, in mixture with one another, or in
29 mixture with small amounts, up to about 5%, of a
30 monomer polymerizable therewith.
31 Uniquely, the initial polymerization products obtained by
32 the present method are mixtures of linear, head-to-tail
33 amorphous and crystalline polymers having no branches
34 longer than R. The polymers can be separated from the
35 polymerizate by fractional dissolution. The crystalline
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