Appeal No. 94-3296
Application No. 07/878,899
Powers reference discloses that the vulcanizate of the Powers
reference is useful for making the cover tube of a refrigerant
transport hose. Nor is there any recognition in either the
Kitami references or the Powers reference that the vulcanizate of
the Powers reference has the properties required for forming the
cover tube of a refrigerant transport tube. While, as indicated
by the examiner at pages 3 and 4 of the Answer, the Kitami
references recognize that rubbers useful for making the cover
tube of a refrigerant transport hose need both high moisture and
ozone resisting properties, the examiner has not proffered any
evidence that the vulcanizate of the Powers reference has a high
moisture resisting property. The fact that the Powers reference
discloses its vulcanizate as comparable to one of the rubbers
disclosed in the Kitami references in terms of an ozone resisting
property does not indicate that they are comparable to each other
in terms of a moisture resisting property. Thus, there simply is
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