Appeal No. 1998-2818
Application 08/550,521
shapes, including rectangular, is well known in the art, as
shown by Buell at column 8, lines 57-59. The incorporation of
a rectangular absorbent core in Uni-Charm or Kao would have
been further obvious in view of such a showing.
The rejection of claims 10-12 as being unpatentable over
Uni-Charm or Kao in view of Buell likewise will be sustained.
Each of these claims specifies a particular affixing means for
joining the separately formed side panels to the diaper body.
Buell teaches that each one of the specified affixing means is
a generally accepted way of joining together components of
disposable diapers. See, for example, column 9, lines 37-44
and lines 62-66; column 21, lines 46-51; and column 42, lines
42-48 of Buell. It would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art to join the separately formed side panels of
Uni-Charm or Kao in any of ways called for in claims 10-12 in
view of Buell’s teaching in this regard.
Claim 8 depends from claim 1 and further calls for a
discarding tape provided on the backsheet for securing a
rolled-up diaper for disposable, a feature shown to be
conventional by Daio ‘051 at element 32, by Daio ‘052 at
element 32, and by Robertson at element 868. The
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