Appeal No. 2000-1445
Application No. 09/149,254
(column 2, lines 18 and 19), and recognizes that hook and loop
strips and pads are known (column 1, lines 57 and 58).
However, nowhere within the overall teaching of Phinn, Jr. do
we perceive other than a teaching or suggestion for a linear
arrangement of pads or strips for overlapping thereof in a
single direction. The patent to Stemke does not overcome this
deficiency. Since the evidence of obviousness proffered by
the examiner fails to include a teaching or suggestion of a
length of one hook and pile fabric strip extending vertically
(vertically oriented) and the length of another hook and pile
strip extending horizontally (horizontally disposed), the
rejection of appellant’s claims must be reversed.
In summary, this panel of the board has not
sustained the examiner’s rejection of claims 1 through 4 under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
REVERSED
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