Appeal 2007-4307
Application 10/173,095
counters that its broadest claims do not require those resins.56 The short
answer is that a claim is met if the claim encompasses those resins, as some
dependent claims do. More significantly, however, since "molecular
interpenetration" includes polymerization, no inherency theory is needed.
Co-curing two resin compositions together such that they consolidate, even
if one is partially cured already as in Chee, meets this limitation as well.
HOLDING
The final rejection of claims 18-38 is—
AFFIRMED
Robert J. Patch
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