Appeal No. 95-4919
Application No. 08/096,516
application.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method for
adhesively bonding an overlay film of a plastic resin to the
surface of an acrylic resin board with a hot-melt adhesive.
Further details of this appealed subject matter are readily
apparent from a review of claim 1, the sole independent claim
on appeal, a copy of which taken from the appellants' brief is
appended to this decision.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Wheeler 2,451,597 Oct. 19, 1948
Neher et al. 2,464,826 Mar. 22, 1949
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Neher in view of Wheeler.
We refer to the brief and reply brief and to the answer
and supplemental answer for a complete exposition of the
opposing viewpoints expressed by the appellants and the
examiner concerning the above noted rejection.
This rejection can not be sustained.
We agree with the appellants that the applied references,
and in particular Neher, contain no teaching or suggestion of
the heating regimen as recited in step (a) or the use of a
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