Appeal No. 1997-1720
Application No. 08/155,881
"air is
advantageously minimized in the mold, thereby decreasing the
number of air pockets in the resultant molded material." (page
7 of brief).
Appealed claims 1-4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Konishi.
Upon careful consideration of the opposing arguments
presented on appeal, we find that the prior art applied by the
examiner fails to establish a prima facie case of obviousness
for the claimed method. Accordingly, we will not sustain the
examiner's rejection.
The examiner recognizes that the molding material
depicted in Figure 3 of Konishi is heated in such a way that
the temper-ature of section (a) is greater than the
temperature of section (c), and the temperature of section (c)
is greater than the temperature of section (b). In other
words, section (b) of the molding material is at a lower
temperature than both sections (a) and (c), However, since
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