Appeal No. 95-4587
Application 08/121,668
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 4-6.
Claims 1-3 and 17-22 have been canceled, and claims 7-16 have
been indicated as allowable.
The subject matter of the appealed claims relates to a
method of unitizing and sealing a plurality of containers.
Claim 4 is illustrative of the appealed claims and reads as
follows:
4. A method of unitizing and sealing a plurality of
containers comprising:
placing on each of said containers a double-backed
adhesive tape structure having a first strip portion for
providing one exposed surface with an adhesive thereon and a
second strip portion for providing a second adhesive coated
surface that is adhered to said container for sealing said
container;
stacking said containers together with the exposed
adhesive surface of said tape structure on each container
being adhered to at least a portion of the exposed adhesive
surface of said tape on an adjacent container.
Claims 4-6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph, as being based on a non-enabling disclosure. The
examiner urges in support of the rejection that the disclosure
is enabling only for claims limited in accordance with the
tenor of the specification to "multipartite" tape structures
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