Appeal No. 95-3178
Application 08/055,477
or close , to the stop means, as required by claim 6. Thus, the5
rejection of claim 6 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) based upon the
Jaynes patent is not sustained.
The rejection based upon the Markoe reference
We sustain the rejection of method claim 8, but not the
rejection of claims 1 through 4, 6, and 7 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b).
Method claim 8
Our review of the Markoe disclosure, and in particular the
perceived operation of the envelope sealing machine construction
of Figure 6 (translation, page 6) relied upon by the examiner,
indicates to us that the method steps of appellant's claim 8 are
anticipated thereby.
In appellant's view (brief, page 4), the Markoe document
(the French reference) does not teach the step of applying a
rearward force to the leading edge (lower edge) of an envelope
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company,5
Springfield, Massachusetts, 1979.
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