Appeal No. 2000-1455
Application 08/911,913
The claims on appeal are drawn to a mat for sanitary
facilities. Claim 1, the only independent claim, reads : 1
1. A mat for sanitary facilities comprising a carrier of
flexible, plastic with suction cups on a bottom side thereof
and a layer of nonwoven fabric on a top side of the carrier;
wherein the carrier is formed of a thermoplastic elastomer is
joined to the nonwoven fabric by having been back-injected
onto the nonwoven fabric.
The appealed claims are reproduced in the new appendix
filed on November 30, 2000.
The reference applied in the final rejection is:
Hausch (German patent) 3,303,993 Aug. 9,
19842
An additional reference, applied herein in a rejection
pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b), is:
Harper, Ed., Handbook of Plastics, Elastomers, and Composites
(2d. Ed. 1992) pp. 7.1, 7.2 and 7.37 to 7.41 (Handbook).
The following rejections are before us:
1 We note that in this claim the comma after “flexible”
should be deleted, and --and-- apparently should be inserted
after “elastomer”.
2A translation of this document, prepared by the USPTO,
is forwarded to appellants herewith.
2
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