Appeal No. 1997-1282
Application No. 07/839,369
through 16 and 33 through 38 were canceled subsequent to the
final Office action dated June 29, 1995.
The subject matter on appeal in this application is
directed to methods involving manufacturing and labeling
particular labels and recycling labeled articles. This
appealed subject matter relates to the subject matter claimed
in U.S. Application 08/439,414, Appeal No. 97-3611, which is
directed to in-mold labeled articles. Claims 17 and 30, which
are representative of the subject matter on appeal in this
application, read as follows:
17. Combined labelling and recycling or reclaiming method
including the steps of: forming layered film material
containing within itself a separation interface and comprising
a hot-stretched coextrudate of two polymeric film plies each
formed in the absence of biaxial stretching and each
comprising one or more film layers, said film plies being
separably adhered to each other at said separation interface
and one of them comprising printable in-mold label facestock
including a printable face layer, said one of said film plies
being further characterized by the absence of any ply-included
layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive supporting said printable
face layer, the other of said two film plies comprising a
heat-activatable adhesive layer that is a contaminant-free
recyclable material, printing the facestock with an ink or
inks to decorate the same, die-cutting the film material to
form individual labels, sequentially deploying the labels for
heat activation of the adhesive and bonding onto successive
substrates said printing, die-cutting, deploying, and bonding
being carried out in the absence of forces at said separation
interface sufficient to cause separation, and subsequent to
said bonding of said labels to said substrate, imposing
separation forces at said interface of said layered film
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