Appeal No. 2001-1486
Application No. 09/137,218
for a roll of stock material (683). A copy of the appealed claims
is appended to the main brief.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Johnson 3,799,039 Mar. 26, 1974
Reid 3,930,350 Jan. 6, 1976
Armington 4,650,456 Mar. 17, 1987
Reichental et al. (Reichental) 5,203,761 Apr. 20, 1993
Jensen et al. (Jensen) 5,450,710 Sep. 19, 1995
The following rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are before us
for review:
(a) claims 135, 143-147 and 150-153, rejected as being
unpatentable over Johnson in view of Reid;
(b) claims 141, rejected as being unpatentable over Johnson in
view of Reid and further in view of Jensen;
(c) claim 142, rejected as being unpatentable over Johnson in
view of Reid, and further in view of Armington; and
(d) claim 157, rejected as being unpatentable over Reichental
in view of Reid.
Reference is made to appellants’ main and reply briefs (Paper
Nos. 22 and 27) and to the Office action dated January 14, 2000
(Paper No. 16), the final rejection (Paper No. 20) and the
examiner’s answer (Paper No. 23) for the respective positions of
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