Appeal No. 2000-0286 Page 3
Application No. 08/704,031
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a disposable
absorbent undergarment. A copy of the claims under appeal is
set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Watanabe et al. GB 2 253 131 A Sep. 2,
1992
(Watanabe)
Tagawa et al. EP 0 623 331 A2 Nov. 9, 1994
(Tagawa)
Claims 8 to 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph, as containing subject matter which was not
described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably
convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the appellants,
at the time the application was filed, had possession of the
claimed invention.
Claims 8 to 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Watanabe in view of Tagawa.
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