Appeal No. 97-4294 Page 32
Application No. 08/294,155
absorbing pad would inherently exhibit a liquid uptake rate at
least 2 times greater than the article with no wettable staple
fiber.
As a final note, we leave it to the examiner to determine
if any of the pending claims should be rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103 based upon Jackson and/or Bair combined with other prior
art.
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject
claims 1 to 39 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, is
reversed and the decision of the examiner to reject claims 1
to 39 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed. In addition new rejections of
claims 1 to 39 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 have been added pursuant
to provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b)
This decision contains new grounds of rejection pursuant
to 37 CFR § 1.196(b)(amended effective Dec. 1, 1997, by final
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