Appeal No. 2000-1455
Application 08/911,913
(1) Claims 1 and 4, anticipated by Hausch, under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b).
(2) Claims 1, 2, 4, 19 and 20, unpatentable over Hausch, under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a).
The Hausch Reference
The first portion of Hausch’s disclosure which is of
particular relevance to this case is in the paragraph bridging
pages 6 and 7, discussing the prior art. According to the
translation furnished by appellants with their brief , the 3
pertinent portion (the first two sentences) of this paragraph
reads4
Elastic mats of the aforementioned type are known in
which a fabric or nonwoven is coated with foamed plastic
and a slip-proof surface structure is formed on the
plastic layer. Suction cups are then bonded onto the
bottom of the plastic layer or attached in some other
3 Erroneously described in footnote 2 of the brief as “a
translation of the paragraph spanning pages 5 & 6 of the
Hauser {sic} reference.”
4This translation differs from the enclosed USPTO
translation in that in appellants’ version the German
expression “ein Gewebe oder ein Flies” is translated as “a
fabric or nonwoven,” while in the USPTO version it is
translated as “a woven fabric or fleece” (see trans., p. 4).
We will utilize appellants’ version here.
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