Appeal No. 95-4806
Application No. 08/155,730
claims. First, even considering, arguendo, that Benoit
teaches dispensing a web of bags from the center opening of a
coil, since Benoit is silent as to which end of the bag exits
first and Lerner teaches dispensing bags closed end first but
from the outside of the coil, we fail to perceive any
teaching, suggestion or incentive which would have led the
artisan to orient a web of preopened bags in the Benoit coil
such that each bag exits the center opening in the coil with
the closed end first. Thus the limitation set forth in the
final clause of each of claims 47 and 51 is not met. Second,
given the fact that neither reference relates the width of the
web to the diameter of the center opening of a coil, and
neither recognizes the problem of insuring that the bags are
not separated by the force of being pulled from the center
opening of the core, the requirements recited in each
independent claim concerning the size of the opening are not
taught. Nor, in our view, would these limitations inherently
have been met by combining the teachings of the applied
references.
From our perspective, the only suggestion to combine the
references is found in the hindsight afforded one who first
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