Appeal No. 1998-2834
Application 08/659,858
adhesive for a particular skin contact application involves a
balancing of these properties.
Given the above teachings of Kenney relating to adhesives
for application to human skin, we are of the opinion that
Kenney would have suggested the use of an adhesive having a
tan * as called for in claim 18 for the absorbent article of
Kao, such that the subject matter of claim 18 as a whole would
have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the
time of the invention. Accordingly, appellants’ argument that
only their disclosure teaches the importance of selecting an
adhesive having the specified rheological characteristics when
the adhesive is to
contact human skin and hair, and that “[t]he prior art did not
appreciate the source of the problem for a comfortable
adhesive or recognize the solution” (brief, page 8), are not
well taken.
In the paragraph spanning pages 7 and 8 of the brief,
appellants argue that it would not have been obvious to use an
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