Appeal No. 1999-1740 Page 7
Application No. 08/799,433
The obviousness rejections
We will not sustain the rejections of claims 5 and 9
under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
As pointed out above, the limitation regarding "a line of
weakness" is not taught or suggested by Omura. We have also
reviewed the reference to Norton applied in the rejection of
claim 5 but find nothing therein which would have suggested
the claimed "line of weakness." Since all the claimed
limitations are not suggested by the applied prior art, the
decision of the examiner to reject claims 5 and 9 under 35
U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
CONCLUSION
To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject
claims 1 to 4, 6 to 8 and 10 to 14 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is
reversed and the decision of the examiner to reject claims 5
and 9 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
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