Appeal No. 2000-1728 Page 2
Application No. 08/785,128
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a sanitary napkin. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the
appendix to the Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
DesMarais 4,425,130 Jan. 10, 1984
Visscher et al (Visscher) WO-92/07535 May 14, 1992
Japanese Patent Application 5-115506 May 14, 1993
The following rejections stand under 35 U.S.C. § 103:
(1) Claims 1-6 and 10 on the basis of the Japanese reference and DesMarais.
(2) Claim 11 on the basis of the Japanese reference, DesMarais and Visscher.
(3) Claims 13, 14 and 16-18 on the basis of DesMarais and Visscher.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Answer (Paper
No. 36) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the Brief
(Paper No. 35) for the appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
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