Appeal No. 2006-0828
Application No. 10/252,175
Appellants’ claimed invention is directed to a method for
making a disposable fluid-handling article comprising the steps
of continuously forming first and second components from first
and second polymeric bulk starting materials and joining the
first and second components into a continuous web.
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Allen in view of Kobylivker.
Appellants have not submitted separate arguments for any
particular claim on appeal. Accordingly, all the appealed claims
stand or fall together with claim 1. In re McDaniel, 293 F.3d
1379, 1383, 63 USPQ2d 1462, 1465 (Fed. Cir. 2002).
We have thoroughly reviewed each of appellants’ arguments
for patentability. However, we are in complete agreement with
the examiner that the claimed subject matter would have been
obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art within the meaning of
Section 103 in view of the applied prior art. Accordingly, we
will sustain the examiner’s rejection.
The principal argument advanced by appellants is that Allen,
although forming an article by coextruding at least two polymeric
sheets, does not disclose that the back sheet is a film.
Appellants point out that Allen discloses “[b]ack sheets such as
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