Appeal No. 96-2297
Application 08/117,446
We turn now to the examiner's evidence of obviousness.
Like the examiner (Paper No. 5), a reading of the Hirsch
document reveals to us that the steps of appellant's claimed
method of packaging red meat products is addressed thereby but
for the claimed re-covering step.
To overcome this deficiency, the examiner proffers the
patent to Sanborn.
We find that the patent to Sanborn teaches a reclosable
package (Figures 8 and 10) for food products (cured or sliced
processed meats and cheeses) where the package is evacuated
and/or gas flushed and hermetically sealed. Once the package
is torn open and the outer hermetic seal is removed, a closure
strip can be manually opened and closed or resealed (column 7,
line 7 through 16).
Based upon the teachings of the two patents before us,
and the examiner's applied rationale for combining same, we do
not
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