Appeal No. 1997-2965
Application No. 08/534,110
We cannot sustain the rejection of appellant’s claims.
Independent claim 1 is drawn to a preclosed slide mount
comprising, inter alia, a bottom and a cover formed from a
cardboard material and a plastic brace coupled between the
bottom and the cover, with the bottom being bonded to the
brace. Independent claim 11 sets forth a cardboard preclosed
slide mount comprising, inter alia, a cardboard bottom, a
cardboard cover, and a plastic brace between the cardboard
bottom and the cardboard cover, with the bottom being bonded
to the brace. Independent claim 17 is drawn to a method of
forming a preclosed slide mount, with the method comprising,
inter alia, forming a first film window into a bottom and
forming a second film window into a cover, wherein the bottom
and the cover are formed from cardboard material, forming a
plastic brace, and bonding the bottom to the plastic brace.
As to the claimed feature of a plastic brace between a
cardboard bottom and a cardboard cover, we are informed by the
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