Appeal No. 95-4359 Page 3
Application No. 08/041,190
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a packaging method.
Claim 12 is representative of the subject matter on appeal and a
copy of claim 12, as it appears 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:
Nawata et al. 2 068 991 Aug. 19, 1981
(Nawata) (United Kingdom)
Isaka et al. 0 243 965 Nov. 4, 1987
(Isaka) (European Patent Application)
Claims 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9 through 12 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Isaka in view of
Nawata.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and the appellant regarding the § 103 rejection, we
make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 14, mailed
December 21, 1994) and the supplemental examiner's answer (Paper
No. 16, mailed May 4, 1995) for the examiner's complete reasoning
in support of the rejection, and to the appellant's brief (Paper
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