Appeal No. 97-0139
Application No. 08/196,819
JOHN D. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
final rejection of claims 1 through 5, 7 through 14, 16, 17,
23 through 26, and 28 through 30. Claims 18 through 22 are
allowed.
Copies of representative claims 1 and 23 appear in an
attached appendix to this decision.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner are:
Wong et al. (Wong) 3,920,313 Nov. 18, 1975
Temple 4,394,418 Jul. 19, 1983
Sanzero et al. (Sanzero) 4,752,527 Jun. 21, 1988
(filed Oct. 30, 1986)
The appealed claims now stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 2
§ 103 over Sanzero in view of Temple and Wong.
We affirm.
The subject matter on appeal is directed to glass fibers
having a dried residue of an aqueous treating composition on
their surface. The dried residue is produced when the glass
fibers are coated with an aqueous treating (sizing)
2This rejection was imposed as a new ground of rejection
in the answer.
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