Appeal No. 1998-2262
Application 08/745,303
Igaue;
b) claims 44 and 62 as being unpatentable over Southwell
in view of Suzuki, Tanzer, Igaue and Kitaoka;
c) claims 64 through 70 and 72 through 76 as being
unpatentable over Southwell in view of Suzuki, Tanzer, Igaue,
Kitaoka and Watanabe;
d) claim 71 as being unpatentable over Southwell in view
of Suzuki, Tanzer, Igaue, Kitaoka, Watanabe and Igakami;
e) claims 77 through 79, 82 through 84 and 86 as being
unpatentable over Saisaka in view of Tanzer; and
f) claims 80, 81, 85 and 87 through 90 as being
unpatentable over Saisaka in view of Tanzer and Horney.
Reference is made to the appellants’ brief (Paper No. 27)
and to the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 28) for the respective
positions of the appellants and the examiner with regard to
the merits of these rejections.
Southwell, the first of the examiner’s primary
references, discloses “a protective, lightweight, disposable
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