Appeal No. 98-2123
Application No. 08/326,669
of the front and back panels whereas the claims make it clear
that sleeve is a separate element. We must point out,
however, that representative claim 13 only broadly recites a
front surface and a back surface (i.e., the front and back
boundaries or "skin" of the card) and a sleeve. Accordingly,2
the outermost boundary or "skin" of the panels 15 and 16 of
Grover can be considered to satisfy the limitation of front
and back surfaces whereas the innermost surfaces of these
panels can be considered to form a part of the sleeve in the
manner that we have discussed in detail above with respect to
representative claim 1.
With respect to claims 16 and 30 the appellants argue
that Grover does not show a core panel that is separate and
apart from the sleeve. We disagree. As we have noted above,
the sleeve is formed by those portions of the core, panels and
the endmost compartment containing a laminated microfilm
segment 54 which define the empty compartments, whereas the
compartments having the microfilm laminated therein can be
2 The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College
Edition, 1982, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, defines
"surface" as --1.a. The outer or topmost boundary of an
object--.
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