Appeal No. 1997-0427
Application 08/296,427
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of claims
1 through 20, all the claims in the application.
Claims 1 and 19 are representative of the subject matter on appeal and read as
follows:
1. A medical adhesive sheet comprising:
a support having a laminate structure comprising a non-porous sheet and a porous
sheet, and
a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer comprising an acrylic polymer prepared by
polymerizing an alkyl (meth)acrylate as a main component monomer, and an organic liquid
component which is compatible with the acrylic polymer, formed on the porous sheet side
of the support, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is subjected to a crosslinking
treatment,
wherein the porous sheet is embedded with the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer
such that the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer reaches the laminate interface between the
non-porous sheet and the porous sheet.
19. A method of making a medical adhesive sheet comprising:
embedding a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in a porous sheet wherein the
pressure-sensitive adhesive layer reaches a laminate interface located between a non-
porous sheet and said porous sheet.
The reference relied upon by the examiner is:
Eur. Pat. App. (Akemi) 0 435 199 A2 July 3, 1991
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