Appeal No. 98-2946
Application 08/291,596
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Joyce 3,374,495 Mar. 26, 1968
Wiig 5,320,378 Jun. 14, 1994
Pellethane® Polyurethane Elastomers, Typical Physical
Properties (Dow Chemical Co., 4 pages)[1992] (Pellethane
brochure)
The claims on appeal stand finally rejected as
unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over the following
combinations of references:
(1) Claims 1 and 9 to 11, Wiig in view of Joyce;
(2) Claims 1, 9 to 13, 15, 16 and 21, Wiig in view of Joyce
and the Pellethane brochure.
This is the second appeal in this application. In our
decision on the first appeal (Paper No. 23, June 18, 1997),
we, inter alia, affirmed the rejection of claims 1 and 9 to 11
on ground (1), supra, and entered two new rejections pursuant
to
37 CFR 1.196(b), one of which was the rejection which is now
under consideration in this appeal as rejection (2).
Following the decision, appellant filed an amendment which
included an amendment of claim 1, the only independent claim
involved in the present appeal, and submitted declarations by
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