Ex parte FREEDMAN et al. - Page 9




          Appeal No. 1997-1282                                                        
          Application No. 07/839,369                                                  

          peelable interface advantageously provides “renewable                       
          surfaces” for manufactured products as indicated supra.                     
               Upon return of this application, the examiner should:                  
          (1) Determine whether Rackovan is qualified as “prior art”                  
          for purposes of 35 U.S.C. §§ 102 and 103; and                               
          (2) Determine whether Freedman taken together with Rackovan                 
          (if qualified as “prior art”) and/or Dudley would have                      
          rendered the claimed subject matter obvious within the meaning              
          of 35 U.S.C.                                                                
          § 103.                                                                      




















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