Appeal No. 2000-1121
Application No. 08/827,656
wherein the rod is overwrapped with a sheet material and an
anti-static additive is incorporated in the rod. This
appealed subject matter is adequately illustrated by
independent claim 26 which reads as follows:
26. An article for use as an anti-static device in
a clothes dryer to inhibit static electricity that causes
the items of clothing to cling to one another, comprising
a rod formed with the shape and appearance of an
elongated cigarette filter having a longitudinal axis,
two ends and being made of a gathered web or filamentary
tow substrate extending from end to end of said rod, said
rod being overwrapped with a sheet material overwrap, and
an
anti-static additive incorporated in said rod.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness:
Cline 4,420,002 Dec. 13,
1983
Rutherford 5,069,231 Dec. 3,
1991
Morris et al. (Morris) 5,145,595 Sep. 8,
1992
Claims 26, 29, 35 and 36 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as anticipated by or alternatively under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as obvious over Rutherford.
Claims 27 and 28 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Rutherford in view of Cline, and claim
30 stands correspondingly rejected as being unpatentable over
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