Appeal No. 96-1227
Application 08/134,853
roller pair for both pairs of Neill et al’s sealing rollers,
because Klar teaches that longitudinal and transverse seals
may be made using only one pair of his rollers” (answer, page
3), and (2) “to design Klar’s sealing rollers in the
combination above for pressure sealing, because Gerlach et al
teach that pressure sealing is an alternative method of
longitudinally and transversely sealing overlying webs”
(answer, page 3).
As pointed out by the appellants, however, independent
claim 26 requires that business forms aligned in a
predetermined orientation be “fed in a single direction of
movement corresponding to a long grain direction of said one
part and said another part” and that a force be applied to
each perpendicular strip of adhesive only to the approximate
area of the predetermined width of the strips “without having
to alter said predetermined orientation or single direction of
movement” of the forms. In response to the appellants’
argument that the proposed combination of Neill, Klar and
Gerlach does not respond to these limitations, the examiner
submits that “[i]t would have been within the purview of those
having ordinary skill in the art to choose to convey the
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