Appeal No. 1996-0328
Application 08/060,891
Beran et al. (Beran) U.S. Patent 4,508,842 Apr. 2, 1985
Tominari et al. (Tominari) U.S. Patent 4,668,752 May 26, 1987
Warren (Warren) U.S. Patent 4,820,557 Apr. 11, 1989
Durand et al (Durand) U.S. Patent 4,857,611 Aug. 15, 1989
Lustig et al. (Lustig) U.S. Patent 4,863,769 Sep. 5, 1989
Steinert et al. (Steinert) United Kingdom 2,125,417 Mar. 7, 1984
Kohyama et al. (Kohyama) European Application 109,779 May 30, 1984
Karol et al. (Karol) European Application 120,503Oct. 3, 1984
Machon et al. (Machon)2 Canadian Patent 1,193,395 Sep. 10, 1985
Sugahara et al. (Sugahara)3 Japanese Patent 63-30507 Feb. 9, 1988
The examiner made four rejections:
(1) Claims 1, 7-14, 16, 17, 20, 22 and 26-36 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable
over the combination of the Lustig, Warren, Steinert, Machon, Kohyama, Tominari, Sugahara and
Durand patents.
(2) Claims 15, 18, 19 and 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the
combination of the Lustig, Warren, Steinert, Machon and Kohyama patents.
(3) Claims 15, 18, 19 and 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the combination
of the Lustig, Warren, Beran and Karol patents.
(4) The provisional rejection of claims 1, 7-22 and 26-36 under the judicially created
doctrine of obviousness type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-14, 16-20, 22-
36 and 62 of copending application Serial No. 08/060,783.
A. The claimed subject matter
The claimed subject matter is a biaxially stretched, heat shrinkable film comprising a very low
density polyethylene (VLDPE). The specification at page 11 describes VLDPE as “copolymers of ethylene
2Australia patent 556,144, published October 23, 1986, is an English language equivalent of Machon. All
page and line citations will refer to the Australian patent.
3The examiner and applicants refer to this reference as Petrochem (507).
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