Appeal No. 1996-3934
Application 08/288,670
suggestion in the prior art that would have led a person of
ordinary skill in this art to use either the composition of
Allen or Yukawa in an extrusion process as claimed for making
a polyolefin film. That appellants’ process (in terms of the
manipulative steps per se) may be known in the art does not3
remedy the basic deficiencies of the stated rejection.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
REVERSED
JOHN D. SMITH )
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CHUNG K. PAK )
Administrative Patent Judge ) APPEALS AND
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3See the specification at page 3, lines 19-28 and page 3, line 34 to page 4,
line 6. The “admitted proir art” process relied upon by the examiner (specification,
page 10) involves the use of a spinneret which produces a fiber, not a film.
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