Appeal No. 97-0608 Application 08/287,143 members, cutting the sheet material into a plurality of pieces of void fill material, ejecting the pieces from the cutting surfaces, and collecting the pieces of void fill material for dispersal around a packaged item inside a package (see, e.g., Figures 1 and 2). As is apparent from Figures 8B and 9B, and as clearly seen in Figure 2, the pieces of dunnage or void fill material in Watts are "capable of possessing an interlocking relationship with other sections of ones of said pieces of void fill material," as required in appellants' claim 20 on appeal. Claims 1, 3, 8, 12 through 18 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by, or in the alternative under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Kesten. Kesten discloses a die-cutting assembly and method of operation thereof which includes providing a rotary cutting assembly (10), providing a rotary anvil member (62), feeding a sheet material (not shown) between the rotary cutting and anvil members, cutting the sheet material into a plurality of pieces (by cutting 11Page: Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007