Appeal No. 1999-2159 Page 6
Application No. 08/746,953
and intermittently arranged longitudinally of the continuous
filaments."
After the examiner ascertained the difference noted
above, the examiner then took Official Notice that (answer, p.
4) that "heat-sealable bonding or embossing was well-known and
interchangeably used with other bonding methods, such as
adhesive bonding, in the art of nonwoven laminates." The
examiner then determined that
[i]t would have been obvious for a person having ordinary
skill in the art to have employed a heat-seal bonding
method to stabilize the laminate in Balch. One of
ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated to do
this in order to modify the bonding strength and/or
texture of the nonwoven laminate.
The appellants argue (brief, p. 4) that there is no
disclosure, teaching or suggestion of using a plurality of
heat-seal lines as claimed. That is, that there is no
disclosure, teaching or suggestion in the applied prior art
(i.e., Balch and Official Notice) of bonding the wipe-off
layer to the heat-sealable sheet by "a plurality of heat-seal
lines extending to cross the continuous filaments and
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