Application of Rudolf Beckmann, Erich Behr and Franz Joseph Huster

WORLEY, Chief Judge.

The issue here is whether the Board of Appeals committed reversible error in sustaining the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-8 1 as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in view of Belgian patent 572,948 2 to Grimminger.

Appellant’s specification defines the problem they and the prior art faced with respect to providing the surface of a cross-linked olefin polymer with a coating of another polymer:

This invention relates to the application of coatings such as varnish coatings to the surfaces of cross-linked olefin polymers.

Commonly, before the application of a varnish coating to the…