Appeal No. 95-5027
Application 08/993,198
the claims of record in the application.
The appellants’ invention is directed to a disposable
absorbent article. The claims before us on appeal have been
reproduced in an appendix to the Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Lindquist et al. (Lindquist) 3,572,342 Mar. 23,
1971
Eckert et al. (Eckert) 3,774,610 Nov. 27, 1973
Endres 3,848,595 Nov. 19, 1974
Lawson 4,695,278 Sept. 22, 1987
Enloe 4,895,568 Jan. 23, 1990
Kao (Japanese Patent) 2 3,202,057 Sept. 3, 1991
THE REJECTIONS3
Claims 2-6, 8, 9, 11 and 12 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to
2Our understanding of this foreign language reference was
obtained from a PTO translation thereof, a copy of which is
enclosed.
3Rejections of claims 15-18 and 20 under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, and claims 1-4, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 13 as being
unpatentable over Enloe, were withdrawn in the Examiner’s
Answer.
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