Appeal No. 95-4450
Application No. 07/949,676
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given
careful consideration to the appellants’ specification and
claims, to the applied prior art references and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the
examiner. We find ourselves in agreement with appellants that
the aforementioned rejections are not well founded.
We note that claims 23 and 31, reproduced above, are the
only independent claims on appeal herein. Claim 23 is drawn
to a method of improving the hand or softening properties of
textile material. The method includes the step of applying to
the textile material an effective amount of a softener
composition made of (a) at least one fatty acid amide
softening agent based on C fatty acids and (b) at least one
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alkyl polyglycoside; wherein the weight ratio of (a) to (b) is
1.7:1 to 8:1 to obtain the improved properties. The
specification teaches, in effect, that applying the fabric
softener such that the textile fabric contains 0.5 to 20 dry
fabric weight percent of the softening composition distributed
thereon represents an effective amount to obtain a soft
textile fabric product. Claim 31 is drawn to the softened
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