Appeal No. 96-3315
Application 08/209,405
cold lamination, as is urged by the examiner, we fail to find
that the examiner’s combination would result in or render
obvious the sealing tape particularly set forth in the claims
before us on appeal.
In the first place, the examiner’s finding (answer,
page 4) that Hurst discloses a pressure sensitive adhesive
tape comprising
a paper-plastic laminate coated on one side
with a pressure sensitive adhesive and
coated on the other side with a release
agent
is factually incorrect. Although the silicone release layer
(14) pointed to by the examiner on page 5 of the answer is
certainly coated on one side of the laminate in Hurst, the
other side of the laminate is likewise coated with a silicone
release layer (16) that is intermediate the plastic film of
the laminate and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (18)
located on that side, thereby precluding the pressure-sensi-
tive adhesive from “coating one side of the laminate,” as in
appellants’ claim 1. Unlike the examiner, we are of the
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