Appeal No. 97-1872
Application 08/371,620
currently pending in the application.2
Appellant’s invention pertains to a self-adhesive label
and to a method of making self-adhesive labels. The subject
matter on appeal is reproduced in an appendix to the brief.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
support of the rejections are:3
Instance (Instance '686) 4,711,686 Dec. 8,
1987
Instance (Instance '043) 4 4,933,043 Jun. 12, 1990
Claims 11, 19 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being anticipated by Instance ‘043.
Claims 14, 16, 22-25 and 31-34 stand rejected under 35
2Finally rejected claims 15, 17 and 18 were canceled by
amendments filed subsequent to the final rejection. Although
these amendments have been approved for entry (see, inter
alia, the examiner’s initialed approval for entry in the
margin on page 1 of each of said amendments), they have not
yet been clerically entered.
3The patentee of each of the applied references is the
appellant.
4It appears that appellant may be entitled to an
effective filing date of September 28, 1990, the filing date
of PCT/GB90/014l87. If so, Instance '043 would not be prior
art in this case. However, in that appellant has not raised
this issue, we will treat this patent as prior art.
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