Appeal No. 2005-0958
Application No. 09/944,477
second web (24) which are fused together at discrete areas (26)
where the first and second webs (22 and 24) are joined (Figures
1-3) and teaches individual thermoplastic fibers of the webs
which are being bonded in a manner such that, upon stretching the
cloth, they are “looped, bulked and bunched between the bond
points” (column 8, lines 26-61). Thus, we concur with the
appellant that even if the teachings of the applied prior art
references are combined in the manner suggested by the examiner,
such combination would not result in the claimed process.
Accordingly, on this record, we are constrained to reverse the
examiner’s Section 103 rejection.
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