Appeal No. 94-4226
Application No. 07/838,345
distributed at random therein.” See column 4, lines 39-44.
The unbiased variance W(a) is desirably less than 300 microns.
See column 5, lines 35-40. The skin provided with enhanced
antiglare structure is utilized on a dashboard, such as the dash
panel of a Nissan Leopard automobile. See column 1, lines 50-56
and column 5, lines 29-32. The Nishiyama reference does not
mention ways in which this skin can be attached to the dashboard.
However, appellants acknowledge at page 5 of the
specification that:
The present invention relates to the application
of such a film in a process for producing antire-
flection-treated surfaces. Said application may,
according to the invention, be carried out in any known
way so long as the produced article has an antire-
flection surface. In the simplest embodiment of the
invention, the film is applied by any known process as
a covering layer to the surface which is to be
antireflection-treated using adhesion promoters. As an
alternative to using an external adhesion promoter, the
film may already be provided during the production
process with an adhesion-promoting layer which has been
applied, for example, by means of in-line coating or
coextrusion. In this case, the film can be applied
directly to the surface to be antireflection treated
under the action of heat and pressure.
Given the fact that the skin needs to be attached to a
dashboard as a cover layer with its structure facing outwardly to
provide antiglare effects and that the use of external adhesion
promoters or already provided adhesion promoting layers is a well
known attaching or bonding technique, it would have been obvious
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