Appeal No. 1996-2004
Application No. 08/225,889
alia, the use of an adhesive made up of a polyisibutylene
component having a Flory molecular weight of from about 40,000
to 70,000. In this respect, Mueller-Cunradi’s high molecular
weight polyisobutylene polymer adhesives are described as
usually having a molecular weight of “at least 1000 and
ranging up to a value in the neighborhood of 10,000 and even
higher”. See this reference at column 1, lines 21-28. Thus,
the combined teachings of Pletcher, Schrader, and Mueller-
Cunradi do not teach or fairly suggest all the limitations of
appellants’ claimed method. Accordingly, we are constrained
to reverse the stated rejection of appealed claims 27-29, 31,
38, 39, and 43-45. Since the examiner does not explain how
the disclosures of either Fagan or Borisof remedy the
deficiencies of the Pletcher/Schrader/Mueller-Cunradi
combination, we are constrained to reverse each of the stated
rejections before us. Thus, the decision of
the examiner is reversed.
REVERSED
)
JOHN D. SMITH )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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