Appeal No. 97-0608
Application 08/287,143
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have
given careful consideration to appellants' specification and
claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the re-
spective positions articulated by appellants and the examiner.
As a consequence of this review, we have made the determina-
tion that the examiner's rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 will
not be sustained. Our reasons follow.
Looking at Barben, we note that this patent is
directed to a method for manufacturing a tool cylinder (e.g.,
a cutting cylinder 1000) for use in a rotary machine for
processing con-tinuously at high speeds a web-like or sheet-
like workpiece, such as, for instance, sheets of paperboard
for the manufacture of packaging boxes. The patentee specifi-
cally mentions (column 1) packaging boxes in the form of flip-
top type cigarette boxes for luxurious cigarettes, which are
semi-rigid boxes of which the top bends backwards in order to
render the cigarettes very accessible. While it is certainly
true that Barben teaches or suggests
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