Appeal No. 1996-0858 Page 8
Application No. 08/117,648
1260, 1262-63, 180 USPQ 789, 791 (CCPA 1974); In re Wilder,
429 F.2d 447, 450, 166 USPQ 545, 548 (CCPA 1970).
Accordingly, in our judgement, a convincing factual
basis to support a legal conclusion that the claimed process
and/or product would have been obvious within the meaning of
35 U.S.C.
§ 103 from the combined teachings of the applied references
has not been furnished by the examiner. In light of the
foregoing, we will not sustain the examiner's rejections of
the appealed claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over the applied references.
Rejection of Claim 17 Pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b)
Claim 17 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as anticipated
by, and/or alternatively under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable
over the admitted prior art in the specification (page 2,
lines 1-19, page 6, line 7-14, and pages 16 and 17,
comparative example A).
The admitted prior art in the specification describes a
cotton toweling product prepared by applying an aqueous
cellulase solution to a cotton cloth to soften the toweling.
The toweling is maintained in contact with the aqueous
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