Appeal No. 96-4158
Application No. 08/404,242
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1 through 6, 8 through 19 and 27. No
other claims are pending in the application.
Appellants’ invention relates to an orthopedic casting
article in the form of a tape which is applied by wrapping the
tape around a broken or otherwise injured body limb to
immobilize the limb. According to appealed claim 1, the tape
is in the form of a roll and comprises a fabric sheet (2), a
curable resin coated on the fabric sheet, and a water soluble
liner (3) contacting the fabric sheet to separate adjacent
layers or convolutions of the fabric sheet in its rolled or
wound configuration.
A copy of the appealed claims is appended to appellants’
brief.
The following references are relied upon by the examiner
as evidence of obviousness in support of his rejection under
35 U.S.C. § 103:
Laufenberg 4,454,873 Jun. 19, 1984
Blott et al. (Blott) WO 90/14060 Nov. 29, 1990
(PCT)
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