In re Whittle

ÜAOjtJudge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection under 35 US'C 103 of claims 1, 2 and 13 in appellant’s application1 entitled “Patch for Tires”.

The invention relates to a laminated tire repair patch which is used to bridge large breaks or boles in .flexible tire casings and is bonded peripherally at the edges of the break. It appears from the record that prior art patches of that general type tended to fail in use because they gradually separated from the inner surface of the tire casing at the bonded edge (a condition termed…