Appeal No. 97-0608
Application 08/287,143
members, cutting the sheet material into a plurality of pieces
of void fill material, ejecting the pieces from the cutting
surfaces, and collecting the pieces of void fill material for
dispersal around a packaged item inside a package (see, e.g.,
Figures 1 and 2). As is apparent from Figures 8B and 9B, and
as clearly seen in Figure 2, the pieces of dunnage or void
fill material in Watts are "capable of possessing an
interlocking relationship with other sections of ones of said
pieces of void fill material," as required in appellants'
claim 20 on appeal.
Claims 1, 3, 8, 12 through 18 and 20 are rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by, or in the
alternative under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Kesten. Kesten discloses a die-cutting assembly and method of
operation thereof which includes providing a rotary cutting
assembly (10), providing a rotary anvil member (62), feeding a
sheet material (not shown) between the rotary cutting and
anvil members, cutting the sheet material into a plurality
of pieces (by cutting
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