Appeal No. 2004-0418
Application No. 09/457,183
the invention may be ascertained from representative independent
claim 1, reproduced below:
1. A paper overlaid wood board comprising:
an oriented strand board core having a bottom surface and
a top surface, said oriented strand board core including a
plurality of strands, each of said strands being generally
oriented parallel to one another;
a resin impregnated paper overlay adhesively secured to said
top surface of said oriented strand board, said paper overlay
having a basis weight of about 25 lbs./msf to about 75 lbs./msf
and a resin content of about 20% to about 60% by dry weight.
The examiner has relied upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Lindquist et al. (Lindquist) 5,718,786 Feb. 17, 1998
Tingley 5,885,685 Mar. 23, 1999
Jaffee et al. (Jaffee) 6,187,697 B1 Feb. 13, 2001
(filed Dec. 31, 1998)
Claims 1-3 and 11-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as unpatentable over Jaffee in view of Tingley and Lindquist
(Answer, page 3).1 We reverse the rejection on appeal for the
reasons set forth below.
1The examiner has separately rejected claim 13 under the
same ground and the same references (Answer, page 4). Since this
latter rejection is subsumed by the former rejection, we need
only discuss the former rejection.
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