Appeal No. 1997-0566
Application No. 08/344,345
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method of
producing a paint roller, to the paint roller product produced
by this method and to an apparatus for manufacturing a paint
roller. Rather than reproduce the appealed claims, we refer
to the application file record for a review of the here-
claimed subject matter.
The following references are relied upon by the examiner
as evidence of obviousness:
Grodberg et al. (Grodberg) 3,226,799 Jan. 4,
1966
Morrison 3,457,130 July 22,
1969 Sekar 5,195,242 Mar.
23, 1993
(parent filed Aug. 15,
1989)
The admitted prior art
Claims 1 through 5, 7 through 9 and 11 through 23 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Sekar in view of Grodberg and Morrison, and claims 6 and 10
stand correspondingly rejected over these references and
further in view of the admitted prior art described in the
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