In re Swain

This- is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the action of the Primary Examiner in rejecting claims 1, 2, 3, and 4 being all the claims in appellants’ application for a patent on coating compositions containing substantial amounts of polyvinyl acetate acetal and a melamine-formaldehyde *1267resin. ■ Claims 1, 2, and 4 were rejected as unpatentable over the prior art of record and claim 3 was rejected “as not reading on the elected species.”

The references are—.Miller, 2,195,254, March 26, 1940.

Wffimer et ah, 2,197,357, April 16,1940.

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