Appeal No. 1998-0837
Application No. 08/516,752
claims under
appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Munari 4,274,915 Jun. 23, 1981
Verkasalo 4,653,395 Mar. 31,
1987
MacDonald et al. (MacDonald) "Papermaking and
Paperboard Making", Pulp and Paper Manufacture, 2d
ed., Vol. III, published 1970 by McGraw-Hill (NY)
pages 456, 460-463 and 564-568, (copy in U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office Scientific Library since July
25,1972)
Claims 1-2, 4-7, 9-12 and 14-16 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over applicants'
admission of prior art or MacDonald in view of Verkasalo and
Munari.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejections, we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 12, mailed October 16, 1997) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejection, and to the appellants'
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