Interference No. 103,640
Before CALVERT, URYNOWICZ and PATE, Administrative Patent Judges.
PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.
FINAL DECISION UNDER 37 CFR § 1.658
This is a final decision in Interference No. 103,640.
The junior party involved patent is U.S. Patent No. 4,894,975
to Steven Ausnit;3 the senior party involved application is
application No. 08/045,254 filed in the name of Hiromichi
Inagaki. The patent is assigned to Illinois Tool Works, and
the application is assigned to Supreme Plastics Ltd.
The subject matter is directed to a method and
apparatus for making a reclosable bag from a sheet of plastic
film on a vertically extending filling chute that is used for
filling the formed bag. A continuous strip of plastic zipper
strip having a reclosable seal thereon is fed parallel to the
sheet of plastic and is joined thereto. The two interlocking
members of the reclosable seal remain joined by a separable web
that must be severed by the user for access to the interior of
the bag.
3 In this decision, the record of Ausnit and Ausnit’s exhib-
its will be abbreviated AR and AX- followed by the appropriate
page or exhibit number, respectively. Likewise, Inagaki’s record
and exhibits are denoted by IR and IX-, respectively.
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