Appeal No. 98-0383 Page 7
Application No. 08/549,869
Claim 1 is directed to the combination of a gift box and a
sheet of flexible wrapping material for placing around the gift
box. It recites the same requirements for the wrapping
material, in somewhat different language, but including the
“pressure sensitive adhesive material.” The same rejection has
been applied against it and, as was the case with claim 6, it
also is fatally defective for the same reasons as were
explained above.
There is an additional reason why the rejection of claim 1
cannot be sustained. This claim also requires the presence of
a “protective contact portion” on the front surface of the
wrapping material, which portion is defined as a material from
which pressure sensitive adhesive can be removed without damage
to the underlying surface. As described in the last four lines
of the claim, when the wrapping material is wrapped about the
gift box the pressure sensitive adhesive portion can
contactingly engage portions of the front of the wrapping paper
where the protective contact material is located, thereby being
detachably secured thereto. This structure is not taught by
either of the references.
The examiner’s rejection of claim 1 is not sustained.
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