DETAILED ACTION Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 1. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103 In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status. The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action: A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made. 2. Claims 1 and 2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Matsumura et al. (US 2017/0183491 A1). Matsumura et al. disclose a resin composition (equivalent to the chlorinated polyvinyl chloride resin composition of the claimed invention) for molding that allows production of a molded body having excellent thermal stability as well as high flexibility and strength and a loss in quantity on heating at 230° C. of less than 2 mass %. . The resin composition for molding contains a chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (equivalent to the chlorinated polyvinyl chloride of the claimed i nvention) (hereinafter also referred to as a “CPVC”) and a thermal stabilizer (equivalent to the thermal stabilizer of the claimed invention) . As the PVC, a vinyl chloride homopolymer, a copolymer of a vinyl chloride monomer and a monomer with unsaturated bond(s) that is copolymerizable with the vinyl chloride monomer, can be used. These polymers may be used singly or in combinations of two or more. Examples of the monomer with unsaturated bond(s) that is copolymerizable with the vinyl chloride monomer include v inyl halides such as vinylidene chloride and vinylidene fluoride (meeting the limitation that the chlorinated polyvinyl chloride contains a vinylidene unit ) . The resin composition may be optionally mixed with additives such as lubricants, processing aids, impact modifiers, heat resistance improvers, ultraviolet absorbents, light stabilizers, fillers, thermoplastic elastomers, and pigments. Examples of the impact modifiers include, but are not particularly limited to, methyl methacrylate-butadiene-styrene copolymers (MBS), chlorinated polyethylene (equivalent to the chlorinated polyethylene of the claimed invention) , and acrylic rubber. (See Abstract and paragraphs 0014, 0023, 0025-0031, 0051, 0052, 0082, 0091, and 0096). With regards to the limitation that the chlorinated polyvinyl chloride resin contain s a vinylidene unit in an amount of 3 to 32% by mass and the mass ratio of the chlorinated polyethylene to the thermal stabilizer (chlorinated polyethylene/thermal stabilizer) is 1.0 to 7.0, t he Examiner would like to point out that concentrations are deemed to be obvious routine optimizations to one of ordinary skill in the art, motivated by the desire to obtain the required properties and differences in concentration will not support the patentability of subject matter encompassed by the prior art unless there is evidence indicating such concentrations are critical. Conclusion 3. Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to FILLIN "Examiner name" \* MERGEFORMAT SHEEBA AHMED whose telephone number is FILLIN "Phone number" \* MERGEFORMAT (571)272-1504 . 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