Appeal No. 2006-1587
Application No. 10/020,768
(b.) a secondary binder in an amount of about 12 to
about 30 percent of the combined weight of said glass
fibers, polyethylene terephthalate fibers and
polyvinyl alcohol.
The Examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of unpatentability:
Heidweiller 3,622,445 Nov. 23, 1971
Kinsley, Jr. (Kinsley) 5,800,675 Sep. 1, 1998
Helwig et al. (Helwig ‘879) 5,935,879 Aug. 10, 1999
Helwig et al. (Helwig ‘843) 6,267,843 Jul. 31, 2001
Helwig et al. (Helwig ‘001) 6,365,001 Apr. 2, 2002
Claims 1 through 8, 11, 13 through 18 and 21 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being obvious over Heidweiller.
Claims 19, 22 and 23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being obvious over Heidweiller in view of Helwig
‘843.
Claims 20 and 24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being obvious over Heidweiller in view of Kinsley.
Claims 1 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being obvious over Helwig ‘879.
Claim 12 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
obvious over Helwig ‘879 in view of Helwig ‘001.
To the extent that the commonly-rejected claims have been
separately argued, they will be individually considered in our
assessment of the respective rejections advanced on this appeal.
Comment [s2]: Add underline to
See In re Dance, 160 F.3d 1339, 1340, n.2, 48 USPQ2d 1635, 1636beginning of legal citation.
n. 2 (Fed. Cir. 1998). Also see 37 CFR § 41.37(c)(1)(vii)
(September 2004).
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