Appeal No. 2004-1831
Application No. 09/338,095
“separably attached” or “joined along a line of weakness” as
required by independent claims 5 and 22 respectively. We cannot
sustain, therefore, the examiner’s section 103 rejection of these
claims and the claims which depend therefrom as being
unpatentable over Yoshino in view of Steidinger.1
In summary, we are unable to sustain any of the section 103
rejections advanced by the examiner on this appeal.
The decision of the examiner is reversed.
REVERSED
Bradley R. Garris )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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Charles F. Warren ) BOARD OF PATENT
Administrative Patent Judge ) APPEALS AND
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Peter F. Kratz )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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1 The examiner’s obviousness conclusion with respect to
independent claim 5 is additionally flawed for the reasons
discussed with respect to independent claim 3.
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