Appeal No. 1998-2393
Application No. 08/295,874
affirmed the rejection of claims 19, 22,
34, and 37 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Honshu Paper (the
Japanese reference) in view of Villez.
In the request (page 1), appellants assert that this
panel of the Board relied upon an inaccurate English
translation of the primary reference to Honshu paper in1
affirming the rejections noted above. More particularly, it
is the view of appellants that the office translation prepared
by FLS, Inc. contains several significant errors. As
perceived by appellants, the reference in the office
translation to another separate “elastic” sheet is incorrect.
To support this conclusion appellants rely upon a duplicate
copy of a previously filed (February 28, 1997) “Adati Patent
Office” (Adati) translation, now accompanied by a translator’s
certificate certifying as to its accuracy, which is indicated
1As pointed out in footnote number 2 of our earlier
decision the translation referred to by appellants was
prepared in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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