Appeal No. 95-2936
Application 07/887,040
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 9 through 14, 18, 19, 22 and 23.
Subsequent to the final rejection in papers filed May 23, 1994
and August 18, 1994 (Paper Nos. 10 and 13½) claim 19 was
canceled, a new claim 24 was added, and other claims were
amended. As a result of the examiner's entry of these amendments,
claims 9 through 14, 18, 22, 23 and 24 remain for our
consideration on appeal. Claims 1 through 8, 15 through 17 and
19 through 21 have been canceled.
Appellant's invention relates to a moistening apparatus
for moistening the glue line of an envelope flap and/or a tape in
a mailing system. Claims 23 and 24 are representative of the
subject matter on appeal and a copy thereof, as reproduced from
Appendix B to appellant's brief, is attached to this decision.
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Lupkas 3,911,862 Oct. 14, 1975
McCausland et al. (McCausland) 4,670,144 June 2, 1987
Katz et al. (Katz) 4,840,397 June 20, 1989
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