Appeal No. 1999-1903
Application No. 08/781,055
Subsequent to the final rejection, appellants filed a Continued Prosecution
Application Request (Paper No. 20), resulting in the cancellation of withdrawn claims 29-
41, and the addition of claims 42-43 (see the amendment filed on April 21, 1998, which
has been entered in the record as Paper No. 18). Accordingly, the rejected claims now
before us on appeal are claims 1-7, 11-28 and 42-43.
The appealed claims relate to a permeable, composite article including “active”
particulate and pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) polymer microparticulate.
Appellants acknowledge on page 3 of their brief that all of the rejected claims stand
or fall together for purposes of this appeal. Accordingly, we limit our consideration to
claim 1, the sole independent claim, which reads as follows:
1. A permeable, composite structure comprising active particulate bonded
to each other with pressure-sensitive adhesive polymer microparticulate.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner are:
Braun et al. (Braun) 5,078,132 Jan. 07, 1992
Young et al. (Young) 5,292,844 Mar. 08, 1994
Claims 1-7, 11-28 and 42-43 stand rejected for obviousness under 35 U.S.C. §
103 in view of Braun taken with or without Young.
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