Appeal No. 1997-2256
Application No. 08/427,706
cutting an edge portion of the skin material by means of one
or more prepositioned pins during mold closing. Further,
given the selective nature of the placement and sizing of the
pins in appellants’ invention, merely supplying pins as in
Matsui EP to the mold of Matsui ‘201 would not inherently
result in the local cutting of the skin material so as to
control the tension thereof, as in appellants’ claims on
appeal.
In light of the foregoing, we cannot sustain the
examiner’s rejection of claims 6 through 11 under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Matsui ‘201 in view of Matsui
EP. Thus, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 6
through 11 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
REVERSED
IAN A. CALVERT )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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