Appeal No. 1998-2551 Page 9
Application No. 08/787,624
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claim 47, and claims 33 and 34 dependent
thereon, is reversed.
The obviousness issue
We sustain the rejection of claims 43, 44 and 48 under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
The test for obviousness is what the combined teachings
of the references would have suggested to one of ordinary
skill in the art. See In re Young, 927 F.2d 588, 591, 18
USPQ2d 1089, 1091 (Fed. Cir. 1991) and In re Keller, 642 F.2d
413, 425, 208 USPQ 871, 881 (CCPA 1981).
Hong discloses a hand sanding pad. As shown in Figure 2,
the sanding pad includes a conformable, self-supporting pad 12
having one major surface capable of providing temporary
adhesive attachment for a sheet 14 of pressure-sensitive
adhesive-coated abrasive material and a handle means for
maintaining the pad in contact with the hand of the user
during use. Hong teaches (paragraph bridging columns 4 and 5)
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