Appeal 2006-3388
Application 10/246,800
1 is not a disclosure or suggestion that this z distribution spreads through at
2 least 50% of the thickness of the elastomeric substrate.
3 We will sustain the Examiner’s rejection of claims 29 to 30 and 60 to
4 61 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Osborn in view of
5 Whitmore and Nogata. Appellants make the same arguments regarding the
6 combination of Osborne and Whitmore as were made in response to the
7 rejection of claim 1. Appellant’s argument that Nogata does not disclose the
8 incorporation of a superabsorbent polymer into a fiber product is not
9 persuasive as we have found this teaching in the combined teachings of
10 Osborn and Whitmore.
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