Appeal 2007-3575
Application 10/233,698
adhesive is in contact with the backing. The regions of lesser adhesiveness
are spaced across the major surface of the dressing and are located on top of
the one adhesive that is located on the major surface of the backing.” (Id. at
8 (emphasis in original).)
The Examiner points to Figure 2 and its description at column 2, lines
53-61 of Economou, as teaching a medical dressing wherein two adhesives
of different tack are located directly on a portion of the first major surface of
the backing (Answer 7). Appellants respond that Figure 2 is a plan view of
an adhesive bandage, and all that the Figure demonstrates is that there are
parallel stripes of adhesive alternating with substantially parallel regions of
lesser adhesiveness (R.Br. 5). Appellants assert further that there is nothing
in the description of Figure 2 that discloses that both the layers of adhesive
and lesser adhesiveness are located directly on a portion of the first major
surface of the backing.
Figure 2 of Economou, which is a diagrammatic plan of an adhesive
strip bandage according to the invention of Economou, is reproduced below:
The adhesive strip shown in Figure 2 has a backing (14) with opposed
marginal portions (26) and edge portions (27) having pressure sensitive
adhesive. According to Economou:
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