Appeal No. 1997-1282
Application No. 07/839,369
rejecting claims 17, 19 through 27 and 30 through 32 under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Freedman.
OTHER ISSUE
U.S. Patent 5,242,650 issued to Rackovan on September 7,
1993 (filed September 9, 1991 (attached herewith)) is directed
to an in-mold labeling process and in-mold labeled articles,
wherein a label film having a face layer 12, a core layer 16
and a heat-activatable adhesive (base) layer 14 is coextruded
and then hot-stretched to avoid shrinking, relaxing or any
distortion of the film which may interfere with the in-mold
labeling process. See Rackovan, column 4, lines 6-27, and
column 5, line 11. Rackovan also refers to US. Patent
4,837,075 issued to Dudley on June 6, 1989 (attached
herewith), which discloses an in-mold labeling process
involving the use of polymeric label stock in the form of a
multilayer coextrudate comprising a layer of heat-activatable
adhesive. See Rackovan, column 3, lines 25-42. Although both
Rackovan and Dudley do not appear to describe forming
coextruded films having therebetween a peelable interface,
Freedman does teach that the formation of such films having a
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