Appeal No. 1999-0384
Application No. 08/597,837
(b) providing a thermosetting coloring layer on the first
side of the wood material layer, the thermosetting
coloring layer having a coloring layer formed by applying
a colored thermosetting resin; and
(c) providing a surface layer on the thermosetting coloring
layer by hot-pressing a thermoplastic resin sheet on the
thermosetting coloring layer.
In the rejection of the appealed claims, the examiner
relies upon the following reference:
Takeatsu et al. (Japanese '239) 63-162239 July 5, 1988
(Japanese Patent Application)
Appellants' claimed invention is directed to a process
for making a decorated article wherein a thermoplastic resin
sheet is hot-pressed on a thermosetting coloring layer which,
in turn, is provided on the surface of a wood base material.
Claims 1-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by or, in the alternative, under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being obvious over Japanese '239.
Upon careful consideration of the opposing arguments
presented on appeal, we will not sustain the examiner's
rejection.
In essence, the examiner has not established a prima
facie case of anticipation or obviousness with respect to the
presently claimed provision of a thermosetting coloring layer
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