Appeal No. 1996-0670
Application No. 08/043,388
41. This amendment was entered by the examiner as noted in
the Advisory Action dated Sept. 6, 1994, Paper No. 10. The
claims now on appeal are claims 2-5, 7-21, 23-26, 28-41, and
53-54, which are the only claims remaining in this
application.
According to appellant, the invention relates to a method
of making a pressure sensitive adhesive-coated laminate
comprising coating a sheet having a release surface with a
pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) to form a laminate, drying
or curing the PSA, and marrying the laminate to the inner
surface of a facing layer where an admixture of specified
polysiloxanes are used to modify the PSA so as to reduce the
initial tackiness by producing a low zero-minute peel value
(Brief, page 2).
Appellant states that claims 2-5, 7-12, 14-21, 23-26, 28-
33, 35-41, and 53-54 stand or fall together while claims 13
and 34 stand or fall together (Brief, page 3). Appellant
provides specific, substantive reasons for the separate
patentability of these two groups of claims on pages 8-9 of
the Brief. Accordingly, we select claim 53 from the first
grouping of claims and claim 13 from the second grouping of
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