Appeal No. 95-4113 Application No. 08/124,334 BACKGROUND The appellant's invention relates to bonding plastic webs. Claims 1, 21, 22 and 23 are representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of those claims, as they appear in the appendix to the appellant's brief, is attached to this decision. The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are: McDowall 2,459,234 Jan. 18, 1949 Pommer 3,066,064 Nov. 27, 1962 Podvin 3,850,716 Nov. 26, 1974 Pennington 4,240,855 Dec. 23, 1980 Claims 1 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over McDowall in view of Pommer. Claims 4 and 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over McDowall in view of Pommer as applied above, further in view of Pennington. Claims 8, 9, 13, 21, 22, 23 and 26 through 29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over McDowall, Pommer and Pennington as applied above, further in view of Podvin. 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007