Appeal No. 1998-0215
Application No. 08/052,671
substantive arguments for the separate patentability of the
subject matter recited in claims 4 and 18 in response to the
examiner’s separate rejections of the same. Compare Answer,
pages 3-5, with Brief, page 8 and Reply Brief, page 6. Under
these circumstances, we interpret appellant’s above statement
to mean that the claims in each rejection stand or fall
together. Therefore, for purposes of this appeal, we will
consider the propriety of the examiner’s rejections of claims
1, 4, and 18 consistent with 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(1997).
Claims 1, 4, and 18 are reproduced below:
1. An electrical insulating material in sheet or tape
form, said material having a woven fiberglass cloth
component and a heat-bondable component consisting
essentially of a thermoplastic resin, said resin having a
melting point of less than about 525 degrees F, and said
resin being bonded to the fiberglass strands and being
present in amounts operable to bond overlapping knuckles
of the woven fiberglass together, and to prevent
significant fraying of cut edges of said sheet or tape,
and to form a remeltable and resolidifiable bondable
thermoplastic surface on the cloth.
4. The insulating material of Claim 3 further comprising
a surfactant saturating the cloth component fiberglass
strands to enhance the bond between the resin and the
fiberglass strands.
18. An electrical insulating material in sheet or tape
form, said material having a woven cloth component which
includes fiberglass strands, and a bondable component
consisting essentially of polyethylene terephthalate
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