Ex parte GISH - Page 2




          Appeal No. 1999-0931                                                        
          Application 08/772,861                                                      


          sandpaper from bulk sheets into sander sized-sheets and to a                
          method for sizing sandpaper from bulk sheets into sander-sized              
          sheets.  An understanding of the invention can be derived from              
          a reading of exemplary claims 1 and 11, copies of which appear              
          in the Appendix to the supplemental appeal brief (Paper No.                 
          19).                                                                        


               As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the               
          documents listed below:                                                     


          Freeman             3,172,587                     Mar.  9, 1965             
          Fischer et al.           5,511,316                     Apr. 30,             
          1996                                                                        
          (Fischer)                          (filed Sep. 22, 1994)                    

               A reference of record in this application, relied upon by              
          this panel of the board in a new ground of rejection, infra,                
          is:                                                                         


          Schell, Jr.         2,642,674                     Jun. 23, 1953             





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