Appeal No. 1995-4675
Application No. 07/875,452
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the refusal of the
examiner to allow claims 1 through 18 as amended subsequent to
the final rejection. These are all of the claims remaining in
the application.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a paperboard
container comprising a paperboard substrate and an inner
sandwich layer on the inner side of the paperboard substrate
comprising, in sequence, a first tie layer, an amorphous nylon
layer and a second tie layer. Further details of this
appealed subject matter are set forth in representative
independent claim 1 which reads as follows:
1. A paperboard container having an outer surface and
an inner product contact surface comprising:
(a) a paperboard substrate;
(b) a layer of heat-sealable olefin polymer on one side
of the paperboard substrate to provide the outer surface of
the container;
(c) an inner sandwich layer on the other side of the
paperboard substrate comprising, in sequence, a first tie
layer, an amorphous nylon layer and a second tie layer; and
(d) a layer of heat sealable olefin polymer on the same
side of the paperboard substrate as the inner sandwich layer
to provide the inner product contact surface of the container
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