Appeal No. 95-4047
Application 07/931,206
can be anchored by closing the ends in the car doors.
Schramer discloses a resealable, plastic, foil, paper or
laminate bag for containing items such as potato chips, dog
food, and lawn care products (col. 2, lines 38-43). The bag
has on its side one or more pressure-sensitive adhesive strips
covered by a release liner having perforated cuts such that
sections of the release liner can be individually removed to
expose new areas of the adhesive, thereby providing multiple
securing sites for closing and sealing the bag (col. 1, lines
6-16; col. 2, lines and 15-23; col. 5, lines 17-34; col. 6,
lines 40-51). The multiple closing sites permit the void
volume in the bag to be decreased as the product volume
decreases (col. 2, lines 49-53).
The examiner argues that Schramer’s teaching of enclosing
or folding plastic covers to form a sheath or bag-like feature
would have fairly suggested, to one of ordinary skill in the
art, modifying the Vargas or Miles Kimball articles such that
they are in the form of an envelope (supplemental answer,
pages 6-7). The examiner provides no reasoning in support of
this conclusion.
Appellants argue that the examiner’ rejection relies upon
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