Appeal No. 98-0457
Application 08/604,813
suggest the provision of a transparent window panel having six
sides, as required by claims 4-6, 14 and 15. Accordingly, we
will not sustain the § 103 rejection of these dependent
claims.
Dependent claims 7 and 12 require that the moisture
transmission rate of the material of the opaque panel and the
transparent window panel are less than or equal to about 0.005
gm/cm /day, while claims 8 and 13 depend respectively from2
claims 7 and 12 and add that the opaque panel sheet material
has a moisture transmission rate of less than about 0.0006
gm/cm /day. Appellants argue in summary fashion (brief, page2
12) that the moisture transmission rate requirement of the
transparent panel is not disclosed or suggested by the prior
art.
While the “Background” section of AAPA does not disclose
the specific moisture transmission rate of the material(s)
used to make the package, one of ordinary skill in the art
would recognize that, generally speaking, the moisture
transmission rate of a particular sheet material is a
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