Appeal No. 2005-1492
Application No. 10/082,375
applying an electron-beam curable coating to the portion of
said material under tension; and
exposing the coated portion of said material to an electron
beam to cure the coating applied thereon.
8. The process as claimed in claim 1 wherein the step of
applying a coating to said material is further comprised of the
following steps:
washing the portion of said material under tension;
rinsing the portion of said material under tension;
drying the portion of said material under tension; and
applying the electron beam curable coating to the portion of
said material under tension.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness:
Ostrowski 3,965,551 Jun. 29, 1976
Asai et al. (Asai) 6,103,317 Aug. 15, 2000
Maddox et al. (Maddox) 6,306,468 Oct. 23, 2001
Claims 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9 are rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Ostrowski in view of Maddox,
and claims 3 and 5-7 are correspondingly rejected over these
references and further in view of Asai.1
1 On page 3 of the Brief, the appellants indicate that the
appealed claims do not stand or fall together in accordance with
the rejections thereof. It follows that we will consider each
claim separately to the extent that it also has been separately
argued. See former regulation 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7)(2003) as well
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