Ex parte JOHANSSON et al. - Page 9




          Appeal No. 2001-2422                                                        
          Application No. 08/817,573                                                  


          Accordingly, we will not sustain either of the examiner's                   
          additional rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103.                                


          In summary: the decision of the examiner to reject claims                   
          1, 2, 5, 8 and 9 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) based on Jessup '158              
          is reversed, as is the examiner's decision to reject dependent              
          claims 3 and 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)/103 based on Jessup                 
          '158 alone and claims 4 and 6 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 based                   
          respectively on Jessup '158 and Pieniak or the two Unicharm                 
          references.                                                                 


                                      REVERSED                                        


                         CHARLES E. FRANKFORT          )                              
                         Administrative Patent Judge   )                              
                                                       )                              
                                                       )                              
                                                       )                              
                                                       ) BOARD OF PATENT              
                         LAWRENCE J. STAAB             )     APPEALS                  
                         Administrative Patent Judge   )       AND                    
                                                       )  INTERFERENCES               
                                                       )                              
                                                       )                              
                                                       )                              
                         JEFFREY V. NASE               )                              
                         Administrative Patent Judge   )                              

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