Appeal No. 1999-2159 Page 4
Application No. 08/746,953
have led one of ordinary skill in the art to combine the
relevant teachings of the references to arrive at the claimed
invention. See In re Fine, 837 F.2d 1071, 1074, 5 USPQ2d
1596, 1598 (Fed. Cir. 1988) and In re Lintner, 458 F.2d 1013,
1016, 173 USPQ 560, 562 (CCPA 1972).
Claim 1, the sole independent claim on appeal recites a
disposable wipe-off article comprising, inter alia, a
heat-sealable sheet and a heat-sealable wipe-off layer
including an expanded bundle of continuous filaments. Claim 1
further recites that the wipe-off layer is "bonded to the base
sheet [sic, the heat-sealable sheet] by a plurality of
heat-seal lines extending to cross the continuous filaments
and intermittently arranged longitudinally of the continuous
filaments."
Balch discloses (see, for example, column 2, lines 7-15)
a nonwoven continuous filament product which is formed into a
spread web and then is preferably dimensionally stabilized by
bonding and/or stitching and/or laminating the spread web to a
sheet material. Balch teaches (column 4, lines 64-71) that a
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