In re Mills

LANE, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Board of Appeals sustaining the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-4 of ap*650pellants’ application1 entitled “Polypropylene-Elastomer Foams” as unpatentable under 35 U.S.C.§ 103. As the board explained in a decision on reconsideration, while the examiner relied upon four patents in support of his rejection, two of them, Cooper2 and Breslow et al.3 (Breslow), provided sufficient basis for a finding of obviousness. We agree that the claimed subject matter would have been obvious from Cooper and Breslow, and we accordingly affirm the board’s…