Ex parte LAKES - Page 3




                     Appeal No. 1997-3874                                                                                                                                              
                     Application 08/446,295                                                                                                                                            


                                The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as                                                                                                     
                     follows: claims 22-24 and 28-32 over Rausing in view of                                                                                                           
                     Taillie and either Schoder or Suzuki, and claim 33 over                                                                                                           
                     Rausing in view of Taillie and Imperial.2                                                                                                                         
                                                                                   OPINION                                                                                             
                                We reverse the aforementioned rejections.                                                                                                              
                                         Rejection over Rausing in view of Taillie and                                                                                                 
                                                                 either Schoder or Suzuki                                                                                              
                                We need to address only claim 22, which is the sole                                                                                                    
                     independent claim.                                                                                                                                                
                                Rausing discloses a method for producing documents such                                                                                                
                     as passports, membership books and identification documents                                                                                                       
                     from a web by applying a thin coating of adhesive to one side                                                                                                     
                     of the web, printing text onto the other side of a web,                                                                                                           
                     folding the web to form a book page such that coatings of                                                                                                         
                     adhesive face one another, and joining the coatings of                                                                                                            
                     adhesive by simultaneously activating the adhesive and                                                                                                            
                     compressing the folded web (col. 1, line 62 - col. 2, line 9;                                                                                                     



                                2 Although claim 33 depends from claim 22, the examiner                                                                                                
                     does not reject claim 22 over Rausing in view of Taillie and                                                                                                      
                     Imperial.                                                                                                                                                         
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