Appeal No. 96-3352 Page 3
Application No. 08/129,921
British Patent 794,500 May
7, 1958
(Chicopee)
Claims 11, 13, 15-17, 23-26 and 37 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by or alternatively under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Humlicek.
Claims 11, 13-15, 17 and 37 stand rejected 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Chicopee, while claims 16, 23-26 and
32-37 stand correspondingly rejected over Chicopee in view of
Hassenboehler and Claim 27 stands correspondingly rejected over
these references and further in view of Shimalla.
We cannot sustain any of the above noted rejections. This
is because neither Humlicek nor Chicopee contains any teachings
or suggestions of the appellants' independent claim features
directed to a visually identifiable pattern of unbonded areas
and a visually discernable base pattern of bonded regions.
Apparently, the examiner believes that regions 11 and 12
of Humlicek correspond to the here claimed bonded regions and
unbonded areas. Such a belief, however, is clearly incorrect
since both of patentee's regions contain microfibers.
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