Appeal No. 96-4193
Application No. 08/267,049
According to appellant, the invention is directed to a
disc cartridge liner for wiping off the dust deposited on a
recording disc where the liner includes a thermoplastic fiber
entangling body and a cellulose fiber entangling body (Brief,
pages 2 and 4). Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter
on appeal and is reproduced below:
1. A disc cartridge liner comprising: a thermoplastic
fiber entangling body composed of entangled thermoplastic
fibers, and a cellulose fiber entangling body composed of
entangled regenerated cellulose fibers and refined cellulose
fibers, the thermoplastic fiber entangling body and the
cellulose fiber entangling body being heated and pressed to be
attached to each other.
The examiner has relied upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Howey 5,060,105 Oct. 22, 1991
Takemae et al. (Takemae) 5,122,919 Jun. 16, 1992
Vogt 2 325 715 Dec. 19, 1974
(Published German Offenlegungsschrift)2
Claims 1 through 3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as unpatentable over Takemae in view of Vogt (Answer, pages 3-
2The examiner apparently relies upon an English abstract
of this reference (see the PTO-892 accompanying the rejection
dated Jan. 24, 1995, Paper No. 4, and the Brief dated Apr. 29,
1995, Paper No. 13, page 11). We refer to and cite from an
English translation of the entire document provided as
Appendix B to appellant’s Brief.
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