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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1998
Filed:
May. 02, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
525191 ; 528361 ; 4284242 ; 4284244 ;
Abstract
Low molar mass copolymers which can be prepared by reacting one or more glycidyl esters of saturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acids having a tertiary or quaternary .alpha. carbon atom, and at least two unsaturated copolymerizable monomers of which at least one has at least one COOH group, under the conditions of a free-radical copolymerization, whereby the weight-average molar mass of the copolymers is below 3500 g/mol and the proportion of branched side chains in the copolymer is at least 20% by mass are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making these copolymers and the use thereof in binder and coating systems.