Appeal No. 2005-2330
Application No. 10/026,123
APPEALED SUBJECT MATTER
The subject matter on appeal is directed to a method of
making an undergarment having “refastenable side seams”. See the
specification, page 1. Details of the appealed subject matter
are recited in representative claims 1, 3, 4 through 6, 8 and 9,
which are reproduced below2:
1. Method of making an undergarment having refastenable
side seams from a substantially two-dimensional web, the web
having two longitudinal sides and a first lateral edge
extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal sides, the
method comprising the steps of:
preconditioning the web to include at least four
refastening surfaces;
transporting the web in a processing direction;
cutting the web along a second lateral edge to form a
two-dimensional pre-form that includes the first and the
second lateral edges and the two longitudinal edges; each
longitudinal edge having two waist sections and a crotch
section located intermediate the waist sections, the
refastening surfaces are located adjacent and inboard on the
waist sections;
2 According to the appellants’(Brief, page 10), the claims
on appeal as follows:
Group I - Claims 1-3, 7, 11-14 and 20;
Group II - Claims 4, 15, 16;
Group III - Claims 5, 17 and 18;
Group IV - Claims 6 and 19;
Group V - Claim 8; and
Group VI claims 9, 10 and 21-23.
Therefore, for purposes of this appeal, we select claims 1, 4,
5, 6, 8 and 9 and determine the propriety of the examiner’s
Section 103 rejections set forth in the Answer based on these
claims alone. In re McDaniel, 293 F.3d 1379, 1384, 63 USPQ2d
1462, 1465-66 (Fed. Cir. 2002).
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