Appeal No. 2003-1718
Application No. 09/344,295
reinforcing mesh in combination with propylene-ethylene-
copolymer sheets...” (Id.)
We must agree with the appellants that the examiner’s
rejection is not well founded. Wynne describes reinforced
composite materials useful in a wide variety of industrial,
transportation, and engineering applications (e.g., landfills).
(Column 1, lines 5-20.) Wynne teaches that the composite may be
formed by overlapping and coupling a first sheet of reinforced
composite material 81 and a second sheet of reinforced composite
material 82 to form a seam 80, wherein each sheet of reinforced
composite material 81 and 82 includes at least two polymer film
layers between which is coupled a fabric layer or scrim with a
plurality of horizontal reinforcing fibers 84 and 85 and a
plurality of longitudinal reinforcing fibers 90 and 91. (Column
5, lines 43; Figures 1, 6A, 6B, 7A, and 7B.) According to Wynne
(column 3, lines 18-27; column 13, lines 16-21), the polymer
layers may be “selected from polypropylene, ethylene acrylic
acid [sic], polyvinyl chloride, ethylene-vinyl acetate
copolymer, ethylene-propylene-diene [sic], high density
polyethylene, low density polyethylene, linear low density
polyethylene, or mixtures thereof” and the fabric layer or scrim
“can be made from synthetic fiber forming polymers, naturally
occurring fibers, and mixtures thereof” (e.g., polyester).
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