Appeal No. 2006-1952
Application No. 09/750,744
an intake intensifier pledget located on a central
portion of the absorbent core;
wherein
the cover includes a hydrogentangled,hydroapertured
spun-lace material;
the pledget includes a Thru-Air Bonded Carded Web material;
and
the Thru-Air Bonded Carded Web material has a basis weight
of between about 15 g/m2 and about 70 g/m2.
THE REFERENCES
Jackson et al. (Jackson) 5,643,240 Jul. 1, 1997
Reiter et al. (Reiter) 5,769,834 Jun. 23, 1998
Hamajima et al. (Hamajima) 6,326,525 Dec. 4, 2001
(filed Apr. 21, 1998)
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 23-33, 35 and 37 over Hamajima in view of Jackson,1 and
claims 34 and 36 over Hamajima in view of Jackson and Reiter.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections and remand the
application to the examiner.
Regarding the rejections, we need to address only the
1 In the statement of the rejection in the examiner’s answer, the claims
2
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