Appeal No. 95-2011
Application No. 07/959,011
adhesive flow onto the second substrate during a nipping
operation, thereby effecting a bond on cooling.
Thus, it would appear that one having ordinary skill in the
art would have been discouraged from adding a tackifier to the
laminating adhesive disclosed in Shih. See Gillette Co. v.
S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., 919 F.2d 720, 724, 16 USPQ2d 1923,
1927 (Fed. Cir. 1990) (the closest prior art reference "would
likely discourage the art worker from attempting the
substitution suggested").
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
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