Appeal No. 98-0384
Application No. 08/579,639
requirement that they be rewritten to include all the subject
matter of the claims from which they depend. Claim 21, the
only other claim remaining in the application, stands allowed.
We REVERSE and, pursuant to our authority under the
provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we will enter a new 2
rejection of claims 2-6, 8-13, 15, 17, 18 and 20.
The appellant's invention pertains to packaging for a
strip of photosensitive material. Independent claim 20 is
further illustrative of the appealed subject matter and a copy
thereof may be found in the appendix to the brief.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Weaver 1,260,491 Mar. 26,
1918
Pomeroy et al. (Pomeroy) 2,797,804 Jul.
2, 1957
Syracuse et al. (Syracuse) 4,148,395 Apr. 10,
1979
Takahashi et al. (Takahashi) 5,222,601 Jun.
29, 1993
Claims 2, 8, 13 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Syracuse in view of Takahashi,
Weaver and Pomeroy.
2Amended effective December 1, 1997.
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