Appeal No. 96-1950
Application No. 08/099,929
view of the disclosure of Igarashi ‘906 at col. 7, lines 24 to
27, that such materials and manners of formation are
conventional in a fuel transporting line.
(D) Claim 12 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable
over Igarashi ‘647 in view of Nishimura. In view of the
disclosure of Nishimura that adhesive may be applied to an
inner
layer 1a of a fuel transporting hose prior to extrusion of the
next layer 1b thereover (col. 4, lines 36 and 37), it would
have been obvious to one of ordinary skill to apply adhesive
over the inner layer of the Igarashi ‘647 hose prior to
extrusion of the intermediate layer, this providing the
obvious benefit of additional adhesive strength between the
layers.
Conclusion
The examiner’s decision to reject claims 1 to 9 and 11 to
13 is reversed. Claims 1 to 9 and 12 are rejected pursuant to
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
rule notice, 62 Fed. Reg. 53,131, 53,197 (Oct. 10, 1997), 1203
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