Appeal No. 2005-0927 Page 4
Application No. 09/954,788
Daum is directed to a data glove and is relied upon by the examiner for its
teaching that data gloves are often made of heavy rubber, resulting in sweat build up
inside the glove, and that it is common for a user to have to take a rest from using the
glove after only several minutes’ use. The examiner’s application of Daum does nothing
to cure the deficiency of Hutchinson noted above.
Barasch, the other reference relied upon by the examiner in rejecting claims 1-6
and 8-13, is directed to a disposable sanitary glove, such as a surgeon’s glove, which
can be conveniently donned without the use of powder. In accordance with Barasch’s
invention, a heavy concentration of granular vinyl chloride particles 24 is randomly
distributed over palm portion 17 while a thinning out of particles is visibly noticeable in
finger stall portions (column 2, lines 31-34). According to Barasch, the random
distribution of the resin particles is an improvement over the uniform distribution of resin
particles of the prior art, which yielded a film containing “microscopic discontinuities
which are known as pinholes and thus cannot be used as surgeons’ gloves due to
sterility and contamination problems” (column 4, lines 1-7). While the gloves of
Barasch’s invention “may be donned without employing powder as a lubricant, there is
no detrimental effect with respect to tactile sensitivity, frictional or grip characteristics
over existing surgical gloves” (column 4, lines 9-14).
Unlike the examiner, we find no suggestion in Barasch to apply the fiber flock
layer of Hutchinson so that the flock diminishes from the bases of the finger sheaths to
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