Appeal No. 2004-2012 Page 2
Application No. 09/183,087
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a diaper. An understanding of the invention
can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix to
the Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Lawson 4,695,278 Sep. 22, 1987
Robertson 5,026,364 Jun. 25, 1991
Japanese Kokai1 02174845 Jul. 6, 1990
(Daio)
UK Patent Application 2 251 172 A Jul. 1, 1992
(Uni-Charm)
Claims 1-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Uni-Charm in view of Lawson, Daio and Robertson.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the Answer
(Paper No. 42) for the examiner's reasoning in support of the rejection, and to the Brief
(Paper No. 41) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 43) for the appellants’ arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
1Our understanding of this foreign language document was obtained from a PTO translation, a
copy of which is enclosed.
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