Appeal 2007-0293
Application 10/630,982
“written description” under § 112, ¶ 1, which Appellant has not adequately
rebutted. Therefore we affirm the Examiner’s rejection of claims 17-20
under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, for failure to meet the “written
description” requirement.
B. The Rejections based on § 103(a)
We determine the following factual findings from this record:
(1) Carl disclose a method for masking [shielding] a portion of a
container to prevent the coating of this portion while permitting
the coating of the remaining surface of the container (abstract;
Answer 4);
(2) Carl teaches that the container may be made from various
compositions such as ceramics, glasses, and polymers such as
polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyvinyl chloride (col. 1, ll. 46-
48; Answer 4);
(3) Carl discloses that the body member or chuck 10 masks or shields
a portion of the container 12 from the coating (col. 4, ll. 16-19;
Answer 4);
(4) Carl discloses that the body member or chuck 10 may be made
from “plastic materials such as bakelite, high density polyethylene,
phenolic oxidative coupling polymers, and the like” (col. 2, l. 61-
col. 3, l. 1; Answer 4);
(5) White discloses coating portions of a plastic container while
shielding other portions from the coating material (Figure 2 and
col. 56-59; Answer 5);
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