Appeal No. 98-0383 Page 5
Application No. 08/549,869
Claim 6 is the broader of the two claims, and we shall
begin our analysis there. This claim is directed to a self
adhering wrapper for use with a gift box. The wrapper has a
front surface and a back surface. A “pressure sensitive
adhesive material” is adhered to the periphery of the back
surface, wherein “the adhesive material attached thereto may be
wrapped about the . . . [gift box] whereby portions of the
adhesive material contactingly engage and attach to portions of
the wrapping material for generally detachably securing the
sheet of material.” A continuous detachable backing strip is
releasably adhered to the adhesive portion, to be peeled off
before positioning the material around the gift box.
As to claim 6, the examiner’s position is that Weder ‘229
discloses all of the subject matter recited except for the
protective backing strip over the adhesive, which in his view
is taught by Culberg and would have been an obvious addition to
the wrapping paper of Weder ‘229. The examiner apparently is
of the view that the “cling material” utilized by Weder ‘229 to
self adhere the wrapper to the gift box can be considered to be
the “pressure sensitive adhesive material” required by claim 6.
The cling material is described in the patent as being film of
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