Appeal No. 1998-2804
Application No. 08/398,881
those practicing in the art. See In re Sovish, 769 F.2d 738, 743,
226, USPQ 771, 774 (Fed. Cir. 1985).
We agree with the examiner that an artisan, having Swidler in
front of him and combining it with the level of knowledge in the
area of applying paints, including strippable paints, would have
found it obvious to supply the steps of preliminary drying and
final drying in the process of applying Swidler’s strippable paint
onto an automobile surface. Moreover, we note that partial drying
in claim 8 does not explicitly recite any specific time duration
for which partial drying takes place; therefore, in any assembly
line where the paint is first applied and then taken to a drying
room or area, the drying process would necessarily have a period of
time, however small, where partial drying will take place before
the main drying starts.
Regarding claim 9, (drying by infrared irradiation), claim 10
(drying by using hot air), claim 11 (drying in the environment of
temperature of 60-90°C), and claim 12 (where the strippable paint
is applied within space isolated from surroundings at a temperature
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