Appeal No. 2000-0909
Application No. 08/784,752
response to, inter alia, signals from the first sensor 37.
Nyfeler also teaches that the backing strip or carrier 5
“moves at a speed which is composed of the strip speed B and
the speed of the carriage 40 and which is equal to the forward
feed speed V of the substrate 1 at least during the sticking
and intermediate phases” (col. 7, l. 66 through col. 8, l. 2)
and that strip speed B of the carrier is lower than the
forward feed speed V of the substrate (col. 7, ll. 64 and 65).
Accordingly, we will sustain the examiner’s rejection of
claim 33 under 35 U.S.C. § 102.
The rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103
We will not sustain the rejection of claims 8 and 30 as
unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over Nyfeler in view of
Craig.
We have reviewed the Craig patent but find nothing
therein which makes up for the deficiencies of Nyfeler
discussed above with respect to the rejection of claims 1 and
27. That is, the combined teachings of the applied prior art
would not have suggested the claimed structure for adjusting
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