Appeal No. 97-0608
Application 08/287,143
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art
that the small pieces of scrap material may be
considered to be "void fill material," and to so use the small
scrap pieces resulting from the process in Kesten.
Regarding the requirement in appellants' claims 1
and 20 that the pieces of void fill material be "capable of
forming [or of possessing] an interlocking relationship with
other sections of other of said pieces of void fill material,"
we note that the configuration of the scrap pieces in Kesten
exiting from the cutting elements (14), as seen in Figure 1,
will inherently possess this capability.
In addition to the foregoing references applied by
this panel of the Board in the new grounds of rejection above,
we direct the examiner's attention to Bishop (U.S. Patent
No. 3,381,563) for another rotary cutting apparatus and
process which produces small irregular, interlocking pieces of
material from a web or sheet of material. Again, we consider
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