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BROOKES & MARTIN CHARTERED PATENT AGENTS TRADE MARK AGENTS EUROPEAN PATENT ATTORNEY'S RECEIVED TELEX 367541 TELEPHONES: (Ol) 242 9631 FACSIMILE <Ol) 31 0566 DX 318 ELECTRONIC MAIL B7:CQQI85 DERICK R. MARTIN, SOLICTOR RICHARD C. MARTIN, M.A,Ca n t a b. DAVID C. WOODCRAFT, B.9p ,(c h 6m) ERIC E. BARNARD, C.CNO.,M.t.E.R.K.,C.SlR.A.r. JOHN F, SYMONDS, LL-a.LONa.soucrron JOHN H. BLAKE, B.So ^Cms m.} HUGH R. WRIGHT, m.a .Ox o n . PETER C. SANDERS, s.So. DAVID M. PRATT, B.Se. DONALD d. ATTFIELD. B.So. C.Ch u m.M.R.S.C. OrncR Ma n a o c r -A. J. JELLY Ac c o u n t s -Mr s PK. DENNIS SEP 04 1987 PASMT ESCOEDS HIGH HOLBORN HOUSE 52/54, HIGH HOLBORN LONDON, WCIV 6SE SIP 9 1387 DJG DCW/VSW Mr. David J. Gouldv E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Legal Department, Patent 1007 Market Street Wilmington Delaware 19898 U.S.A. and Company Records Center 28 August 1987 Dear Mr. Gould, European Patent Application No. 87 303 682.6 Your reference; CH 1370 - JACOBSON The search report has now, issued on the above application and a copy is enclosed, together with copies of the cited references. I note that the Chemical Abstracts reference which is cited as being of particular relevance, treats the surface of Ti02 pigments with perborate compounds rather borate salts as disclosed in the present application. The disclosure in the Chemical Abstracts reference is based on a Finnish patent and it might well be worth making a translation of the Finnish basic reference if there are no equivalent patents in a more accessible language. If you would like me to follow this up, please let me know. The next stage will be the publication of the application and the search report, and this will be reported to you in due course. Yours sincerely. , Ends; TUNBRIDGE WELLS: t BOYNE PARK, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT. TNJ 8EL. TEL.10602) SI080 0 TELEX 087078 FACSIMILE (0802} S10666 BIRMINGHAM: PRUDENTIAL BUILDINGS, B ST. PHILIP'S PLACE, BIRMINGHAM, 83 SAP, TEL. (021} 236 6262 TELEX 323381 FACSIMILE {021)2001-473 MUNICH: 15 ZWEIBRUCKEN5TRASSE, 6 MUNICH 22. TEL. (060) 22 20 IO N 30932