Ex parte DUNSON et al. - Page 4




          Appeal No. 95-2221                                                          
          Application No. 07/994,072                                                  


                    (7) Whether the examiner correctly rejected claims                
          1-8 and 10-18 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over                    
          Parker in view of Peoples, O'Connor, and Schwan;                            
                    (8) Whether the examiner correctly rejected claim 9               
          under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Parker in view of Peoples,                       
          O'Connor, Schwan, and Serafini;                                             
                    (9) Whether the examiner correctly rejected claims                
          19-22 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Parker in                  
          view of Peoples, O'Connor, Schawn, and Adams;                               
                                         and                                          
                    (10) Whether the examiner correctly rejected claim                
          24 under 35 U.S.C. & 103 as unpatentable over Parker in view                
          of People, O'Connor, Schawn, and Benedick.                                  

               We cannot sustain any of the above rejections.                         
                                       OPINION                                        
               With respect to rejection (1), the examiner asserts that               
          the specification fails to provide written descriptive support              
          for the amendatory language in appealed claim 1 regarding the               
          negative limitation that solidification occurs "without                     
          molding under pressure, heat setting, or calendaring."  We                  

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