Appeal No. 99-0920
Application No. 08/629,323
5 of the European reference which we view as explicitly
showing a sinusoidal pattern.
Although the appellants have also commented upon
dependent claims 24 through 28 (see the last paragraph on page
5 and the first paragraph on page 6 of the brief), the only
reasonably specific argument we discern from these comments
relates to the independent claim feature of curvilinear
adhesive zones. Since
we have concluded that such a feature would have been obvious,
the appellants’ comments concerning these dependent claims are
unconvincing of the patentability thereof.
Under the circumstances recounted above, it is our
determination that we should also sustain the examiner’s
section 103 rejection of claims 20 through 26, 29 and 33 as
being unpatentable over the European reference in view of
Dickover and Mahoney.
Summary
We have sustained each of the rejections advanced by the
examiner on this appeal except for his section 112, second
paragraph, rejection of claim 33.
The decision of the examiner is affirmed.
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