Appeal No. 96-1211
Application 08/173,083
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final
rejection of claims 13-19, and 21-33, which are all of the claims pending in this application.
Claims 13, 15, 16, 17, 25, and 30 are illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and read
as follows:
13. A method of making an assembly of linerless labels comprising the steps of:
(a) forming a linerless label web by printing indicia on a first face of a web of label
stock and coating the first face with a pressure sensitive adhesive release material, and
coating a second face of the web of label stock with a pressure sensitive adhesive;
(b) die-cutting a plurality of non-quadrate configuration labels from said web and
(c) taking up the plurality of non-quadrate configuration labels in an assembly form
in which the plurality of labels are readily releasably connected to each other.
15. A method as recited in claim 13 comprising the further step (d) between steps
(b) and (c), of separating the die cut labels from each other and the web, and wherein step
(e) is practiced by shingling the labels so that a portion of the pressure sensitive adhesive
on one label engages a portion of the release material on an adjacent label, the shingled
labels completely linerless.
16. A method as recited in claim 15 wherein step (c) is further practiced by taking
the shingled labels up in a roll form.
17. A method as recited in claim 13 wherein step (b) is practiced to provide a
plurality of label stock ties connecting each label to surrounding matrix material of the web
or another label, and wherein step (c) is practiced by taking up the matrix material and die-
cut webs in linerless roll form.
25. A method as recited in claim 13 wherein steps (a) and (b) are practiced so as
to provide labels with exposed adhesive over the entire second faces thereof.
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