Appeal No. 97-1037
Application 08/467,869
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 5, all of the claims in the application.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a vibration-and-noise
damping insert for the brakes of automotive vehicles and to a
method of producing a material web for the manufacture of vehicle
brake vibration-and-sound damping inserts. An understanding of
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1
and 4, copies of which appear in the appendix to appellant’s main
brief (Paper No. 20).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied
the documents listed below:
Niwa et al. (Niwa) 5,063,098 Nov. 5, 1991
Fogg et al. (Fogg) 1,550,616 Aug. 15, 1979
(Great Britain)2
Josefsson WO 91/13758 Sep. 19, 1991
(PCT document)
2We shall refer to this reference as the British document,
as did the examiner.
2
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007