Ex parte DOUBLET et al. - Page 12




          Appeal No. 1999-2433                                                        
          Application No. 08/862,361                                                  


          Finding nothing in Jones or Vernois which would provide                     
          for the deficiencies of Melling as noted above, we must also                
          refuse to sustain the examiner’s rejections of dependent claim              
          33 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 on the basis of Melling combined with              
          either Jones or Vernois. As for the rejection of dependent                  
          claim 33 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 on the basis of Thomas and                   
          Vernois, we note that the examiner has pointed to nothing in                
          Thomas or Vernois                                                           
          that teaches or suggests the process steps of independent                   
          claim 23 on appeal as we have noted above. This is                          
          particularly significant since the security paper pointed to                
          by the examiner in Figure 7 of Thomas is a single ply paper                 
          with a reduced                                                              


          thickness area (3) and not a two-ply paper like that formed by              
          the process of appellants’ claim 23 on appeal. Lacking the                  
          noted limitations of independent claim 23, it follows that the              
          examiner’s rejection of dependent claim 33 under 35 U.S.C. §                
          103 on the basis of Thomas in view of Vernois will therefore                
          not be sustained.                                                           


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