Patent ID: 8802063

Claim:
A topical composition for application to a human integument comprising an effective amount of a film-forming copolymer of one or more olefins and one or more cycloolefins, and a vehicle suitable for topical use, wherein said film-forming copolymer has less than 1% crystallinity by weight and is liquid at room temperature, and wherein said one or more cycloolefins consist essentially of a cycloolefin-of formula (I): wherein, X is selected from —O—, —S —, —N(R N ) 2 —, —C(O)—, —C(R*) 2 —, —C(R*) 2 C(R*) 2 —, —C(R*) 2 —O—, —C(R*) 2 —N(R N ) 2 —, —C(O)C(R*) 2 —, —C(O)—O—, —C(O)—N(R N ) 2 —; R a and R b are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 1 -C 6 alkenyl, C 1 -C 6 alkynyl, aryl, cyano, and —C(O)OR*; R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, cyano, vinyl, —N(R N ) 2 , —C(O)OR*, —C(O)N(R N ) 2 , —S(O) 2 R*, or a C 1 -C 16 hydrocarbon selected from alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, allyl, aryl, aryl-alkyl, and alkyl-aryl; wherein any one of R 1 or R 2 or any one of any one of R 3 or R 4 may be absent in which case the remaining substituent of R 1 and R 2 or of R 3 and R 4 forms a double bond with the ring carbon atom to which it is attached to form an alkylidene substituent; and wherein any of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 may together form additional ring systems having from three to eight atoms in the ring; R 5 and R 6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl; vinyl, allyl, and butenyl; and R N and R* are, independently at each occurrence, selected from hydrogen or a C 1 -C 16 alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, aryl-alkyl, or alkyl-aryl group; and wherein any one or more of R N and R* may, together with another of R N or R*, form additional ring systems having from three to six ring atoms.