Appeal No. 2004-0645
Application 09/194,968
absorbent pants with waist reclosing means in particular for
smaller users. Independent claims 1 and 14 are representative of
the subject matter on appeal and a copy of those claims may be
found in the Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Buell ‘003 3,860,003 Jan. 14, 1975
Kopp 4,610,682 Sep. 9, 1986
Wilson et al. (Wilson) 4,834,742 May 30, 1989
Buell et al. (Buell ‘092) 5,151,092 Sep. 29, 1992
Bergman et al. (Bergman) 5,624,427 Apr. 29, 1997
Suprise 5,853,405 Dec. 29, 1998
Courtaulds 1 520 740 Aug. 9, 1978
(British Patent)
Claims 1 through 3, 5 and 8 through 10 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Courtaulds.
Claim 4 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Courtaulds in view of Wilson.
Claims 6 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Courtaulds in view Buell ‘003 and
Suprise.
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