Appeal No. 1997-4310 Page 6
Application No. 08/371,362
As developed in appellant’s brief (pages 9-11), Laumann
is not directed to a repulping process or forming a wax coated
paper product that would be a suitable starting material for
repulping. Rather, Laumann is concerned with the formation of
disposable paper products such as toilet or facial tissue,
diaper liners, etc. that may be disposed of by flushing into a
sewer system after use. Here, the examiner simply has not
offered a convincing explanation as to why one of ordinary
skill in the art would have been led to apply the repulping
method of Savage to the sewage pipeline disposable product of
Laumann in a manner so as to arrive at the herein claimed
subject matter.
Section 103 Rejection over Gotoh in view of Savage and Laumann
Regarding the rejection of claims 23, 46 and 57-64 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Gotoh in view of
Savage and Laumann, we observe that Gotoh is concerned with a
wax emulsion coating and does not suggest a method of treating
a hot melt wax coated paper of the type all of the appealed
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