Appeal No. 1999-1370
Application No. 08/513,350
overlaying an interior face surface to thereby prevent
moisture penetration into the interior face surface of more
than about five grams per square meter of the interior face
surface per hour. Further details of this appealed subject
matter are set forth in representative independent claim 9
which reads as follows:
9. In an architectural product installed in a building
and having a core portion with an interior face surface and an
exterior face surface directed respectively toward an interior
and an exterior of said building and being inherently unstable
in dimension if subjected to varying moisture conditions at
said interior and exterior face surfaces, and having a
moisture barrier on said exterior face surface exposed to the
exterior of said building, the improvement which comprises
polyurethane laminating adhesive overlying said interior face
surface preventing a moisture penetration into said interior
face surface of more than about five grams per square meter of
said interior face surface per hour, thereby substantially
shielding said core portion from moisture relative to said
interior face surface, and at least one lamina layer overlying
said interior face surface and adhered to said interior face
surface by said laminating adhesive, said lamina layer
including an aesthetic architectural interior design surface
visibly exposed to the interior of said building.
In support of his obviousness conclusion, the examiner
relies upon the declaration of Robert L. Donnelly filed
December 29, 1997 (see Paper No. 10). More specifically, the
examiner relies upon a statement in this declaration which the
examiner regards as an admission that evinces obviousness with
respect to the here claimed subject matter.
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