Ex Parte Hamada et al

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Nov 21, 2013

10962622 (P.T.A.B. Nov. 21, 2013)

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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Ex parte ATSUSHI HAMADA, KATSUHIRO OKADA, TAKASHI
KINOSHITA, TOKUJI NAKANISHI, and YUKIMASA SAWADA
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Appeal 2012-003348
Application 10/962,622
Technology Center 1600
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Before LORA M. GREEN, MELANIE L. McCOLLUM, and
ERICA A. FRANKLIN, Administrative Patent Judges.

FRANKLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.

DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal1 under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) involving claims to an
antimicrobial adhesive sheet. The Patent Examiner rejected the claims as
obvious. We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b). We affirm.

1 Appellants identify the Real Party in Interest as NITTO DENKO
CORPORATION. (See App. Br. 2.)

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Claims 1-4 and 6-11 are on appeal. Independent claim 1 is
representative and is reproduced in the “Claims Appendix” of Appellants’
Brief (App. Br. 15-16).
The Examiner rejected the claims as follows:
• claims 1-4 and 6-9 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over
Delgado2 and Otsu;3 and
• claim 10 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over Delgado,
Otsu, and Watanabe;4 and
• claim 11 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over Delgado,
Otsu, and Saeke.5
Upon consideration of the evidence on this record and each of
Appellants’ contentions, we find that the preponderance of evidence on this
record supports the Examiner’s conclusions that the subject matter of
Appellants’ independent claim 1 is unpatentable over the combination of
Delgado and Otsu. Appellants do not raise additional arguments regarding
the rejections of claims 2-4 and 6-11. (See App. Br. 13.) Accordingly, we
sustain the Examiner’s rejections of each of these claims for the reasons set
forth in the Answer, which we incorporate herein by reference.

2 US Patent No. 5,614,310 issued to Joaquin Delgado et al., Mar. 25, 1997.
3 US Patent No. 5,696,169 issued to Yoshiro Otsu et al., Dec. 9, 1997.
4 Patent Application Publication No. US 2001/0051180 A1 by Tyler
Watanabe et al., published Dec. 13, 2001.
5 Patent No. JP 08-143404 by Saeke et al., published Jun. 4, 1996.

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TIME PERIOD FOR RESPONSE
No time period for taking any subsequent action in connection with
this appeal may be extended under 37 C.F.R. § 1.136(a).

AFFIRMED

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