Appeal No. 95-4375
Application 08/153,491
Parker 5,088,972 Feb. 18, 1992
Parker 5,173,352 Dec. 22, 1992
(filed Jun. 14, 1990)
Pollux Trust 666,225 Feb. 6, 1952
(Swiss Patent)
Claims 18, 19, 25, 29, 30 and 32 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Parker ‘352 in view of
Pollux Trust.
Claims 18, 19, 25, 29, 30, 32, 35 and 36 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Parker ‘972 in
view of Pollux Trust.
The Parker references represent appellant’s prior art
jumping off point. Each of the Parker references discloses an
apparatus and method wherein sequentially folded strips of paper
are produced from a substantially continuous web of paper by
restricting the forward advancement of a plurality of strips of
paper in such a manner that the natural resilience of the paper
produces substantially uniform adjacent opposite folds. The
examiner concedes that neither of the Parker references discloses
“a moistening device which moistens the withdrawn section of
paper thereby forming a moistened section of paper,” as called
for in independent apparatus claim 18, or the step of “moistening
the withdrawn section of paper to form a moistened section of
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