Appeal No. 1999-0911
Application No. 08/852,708
§ 103(a) as unpatentable over the following combinations of
prior art:2
(1) Claims 52 and 53, APA in view of Steidinger;
(2) Claims 54, 55, 58 and 59, APA in view of Steidinger and
Otruba;
(3) Claims 56 and 57, APA in view of Steidinger and Klaeser.
Rejection (1)
The argument with regard to this rejection concerns the
final step of claim 52, which reads:
providing sufficient length in said section of
said web between said feed means and said cut line
to reduce the tensile stress in said section of said
web between said feed means and said cut line to
prevent tears in said web incident to severing of
said web.
The examiner takes the position that it would have been
obvious to modify the method of the APA to include this step
in view of Steidinger. As stated by the examiner at pages 4
to 5 of the Answer:
2A rejection of claims 52 to 59 under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph (non-enablement), has been withdrawn (removed)
by the examiner (Answer, page 9).
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