Appeal No. 2000-0855
Application No. 08/597,377
none of the applied references teach or suggest an elastic
band including at least one region with perforations which
have a smaller extension in a direction in which the elastic
band acts than perpendicularly to said direction. Thus, even
if it were obvious to modify Proxmire in
view of Pieniak, Sigl, Bianco, Buell and Richardson as set
forth in the rejection, an artisan would not have arrived at
the claimed subject matter.
Claim 18 depends from claim 17 and requires each of the
additional elastic bands affixed to the leg margins to include
at least three regions of different bonding patterns and
different degrees of elasticity with one of the patterns being
located in the crotch part of the diaper and having the
greatest elasticity. As pointed out above, the language
“bonding patterns” refers to the locations at which the
material layers are joined to one another, not to a bonding
pattern used to bond the elastic band to the body of the
diaper. Once again, we agree with the appellants’ argument
(main brief, p. 37) that none of the applied art teaches or
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