Appeal No. 97-0608 Application 08/287,143 would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art that the small pieces of scrap material may be considered to be "void fill material," and to so use the small scrap pieces resulting from the process in Kesten. Regarding the requirement in appellants' claims 1 and 20 that the pieces of void fill material be "capable of forming [or of possessing] an interlocking relationship with other sections of other of said pieces of void fill material," we note that the configuration of the scrap pieces in Kesten exiting from the cutting elements (14), as seen in Figure 1, will inherently possess this capability. In addition to the foregoing references applied by this panel of the Board in the new grounds of rejection above, we direct the examiner's attention to Bishop (U.S. Patent No. 3,381,563) for another rotary cutting apparatus and process which produces small irregular, interlocking pieces of material from a web or sheet of material. Again, we consider 13Page: Previous 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007