Ex parte LANTZ et al. - Page 12




          Appeal No. 97-2963                                        Page 12           
          Application No. 08/284,728                                                  


          or motivation in the applied prior art to make Tracy's absorbent            
          strips 50 nonwettable.  Accordingly, the decision of the examiner           
          to reject independent claim 1 and dependent claim 27 under                  
          35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.                                                


                                      CONCLUSION                                      
               To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 1          
          to 13, 15 to 19 and 21 to 27 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first                   
          paragraph, is reversed and the decision of the examiner to reject           
          claims 1 to 13, 15 to 19 and 21 to 27 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is              
          reversed.                                                                   

























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