Appeal No. 2005-1635
Application No. 09/782,036
This sheet product is prepared by, for example,
conducting powder coating of said composition onto the
release paper or the steel belt, providing the core
layer 1 on said composition, then forming those into a
laminated sheet by heating at an increased pressure.
Given the above teachings, we determine that one of
ordinary skill in the art would have been led to make the
laminated floor coverings taught by Takeuchi, i.e., a textile
sheet coated on one or both sides with thermoplastic particles,
using the conveyor belt method suggested by Brinkmann alone, or
together with Weaver and/or Bradshaw, motivated by a reasonable
expectation of successfully obtaining laminated floor coverings
having the advantageous properties taught by Brinkmann at column
2, lines 1-56 and Takeuchi at column 2, lines 43-47.2
The appellants argue (Brief, page 8) that:
With respect to claim 32, the Examiner asserts
that “‘contacting' the second substrate with the first
coating would have been obvious in view of (a)
Takeuchi et al[.]'s teaching to contact both sides of
a textile sheet with thermoplastic material[.]” The
Examiner's reliance on Takeuchi is misplaced. That is,
although Takeuchi teaches a textile sheet having both
sides thereof coated with thermoplastic, it does not
provide any teaching or suggestion as to the order in
which that sheet is made. On the other hand, as set
forth in claim 32, the second sheet is applied over a
2 We determine that Schermutzki is redundant in that it also
teaches applying thermoplastic powder on both sides of a textile
sheet, such as a glass fiber mat, to form a laminated floor
covering.
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