Appeal No. 96-0333
Application 08/054,793
directly to concrete or block surfaces without the use of
furring strips; securing paneling or other veneer to base
structures, and many other uses."
The examiner acknowledges (answer, page 4) that, as
argued by appellant (brief, page 4), McCain does not disclose
the adhesive application technique recited in appellant’s
claim 1. The examiner argues that Obergfell discloses that
two or more workpieces may be joined using his method (answer,
page 4), and that this teaching "reads on the applicant’s
claimed process step of wetting all the layers of the stack
with the injected binder" (answer, page 5). The examiner
argues that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art to use Obergfell’s
adhesive injection technique in McCain’s method because both
references are directed to applying adhesive to sheet
materials (answer, page 5).
Appellant argues that "Obergfell does not teach anything
about joining multiple sheets of any material in such a way
that the technique could be applied to adhesively forming a
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