Appeal No. 2000-1582
Application 08/697,034
instead of rubber or synthetic resin.
We do not consider this rejection to be well taken. In
the first place, the Hagiwara bumper is described as an
“elastic bumper,” and its elastic character would be nullified
if its outer sheet 11 were made of stainless steel. Secondly,
the laminated bumpers of Hagiwara and Matthysse are both made
up of metal and plastic laminations; there is no disclosure in
either of an all-metal laminated bumper. For these reasons,
Matthysse would not in our view provide any teaching,
suggestion or motivation to one of ordinary skill in the art
to utilize stainless steel for the outer sheet of the Hagiwara
bumper.
We therefore will not sustain the rejection of claims 3,
4 and 20, nor of claims 12, 14 and 15, the other claims
included in this rejection.
Rejections (3), (4), (5) and (6)
As discussed above in connection with rejection (1), the
outer sheet 11 of the Hagiwara bumper would not inherently
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