Appeal No. 1999-1332
Application No. 08/591,857
either directly or indirectly from claim 1, we have reviewed
the additional references applied by the examiner in these
rejections. While these additional references may disclose
certain features required by the claims against which they
were cited, they do not make up for the basic deficiency in
the examiner’s combination of Allan and Wasielewski, which is
the linchpin of all the standing rejections. Accordingly, the
standing rejections of claims 2-14 also cannot be sustained.
Remand
This case is remanded to the examiner for consideration
of the following matter.
Claim 1 does not require any particular material, or
thickness, or mechanical strength, for the flat sheets of the
case. Claim 1 requires, inter alia, that “said sheets alone [2]
[do] not hav[e] enough mechanical strength to provide a
cassette that is dimensionally stable, but hav[e] in
combination with the adhesive layers and filter pack
2According to appellants’ disclosure (specification, page
3, lines 1-3), the sheets of the present invention “can
consist of any pliable sheeting, for example wood, metal,
cardboard and/or plastic.”
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