Appeal No. 1999-0702 Page 8
Application No. 08/858,564
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claims 10 to 16 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) is
reversed.
The obviousness rejections
We will not sustain the rejection of claims 10 to 22
under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
The test for obviousness is what the combined teachings
of the references would have suggested to one of ordinary
skill in the art. See In re Young, 927 F.2d 588, 591, 18
USPQ2d 1089, 1091 (Fed. Cir. 1991) and In re Keller, 642 F.2d
413, 425, 208 USPQ 871, 881 (CCPA 1981).
With regard to the rejection of claims 10 to 16 as being
unpatentable over Kiyohara in view of Schroer, we have
reviewed the references to Schroer and Kiyohara and fail to
find any teaching, suggestion or motivation therein for a
person having ordinary skill in the art at the time the
invention was made to have modified Kiyohara's tackifier
coating layer 14 and peelable paper 15 so as to arrive at the
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