Appeal No. 2006-0930
Application No. 09/905,540
including Snack-A-Dip® (Lightly Salted Tortilla Chips &
Salsa), are considered to be prior art to the
appellant. (Supplemental appeal brief at 7.)
18. We find that the outer packaging label of the Snack-A-
5 Dip® (Lightly Salted Tortilla Chips & Salsa) sample is
marked with an identification of French Patent No.
9912098, which was published as publication 2,798,911
on March 30, 2001 (copies of the document and its
English language translation are attached).
10 19. We further find that the outer packaging label of the
Snack-A-Dip® (Lightly Salted Tortilla Chips & Salsa)
sample touts the product as a “2-in-1 Combi Pack”
(i.e., a convenient package product combining the
snack chips and the dip-condiment tub).
15 20. We also find that Snack-A-Dip® (Lightly Salted Tortilla
Chips & Salsa) is a snack food kit including a
cylindrical container filled with a plurality of
tortilla chips, a plastic lid, and a dip-condiment tub
attached to the upper lip of the container by means of
20 the container lid pressing against an upper rim of the
dip-condiment tub.
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