Appeal No. 1997-3611
Application No. 08/439,414
9 was amended subsequent to the final Office action dated
March 26,
1996. Claims 1 through 8 and 33 through 35 were withdrawn
from consideration by the examiner as being directed to a
nonelected invention.
The subject matter on appeal in this application is
directed to in-mold labeled plastic bottles or other in-mold
labeled articles. This appealed subject matter relates to the
subject matter claimed in U.S. Application 07/839,369, Appeal
No.
97-1282, which is directed to methods involving manufacturing
and labeling particular labels and recycling labeled articles.
Claim 9, which is representative of the subject matter on
appeal in this application, reads as follows:
9. An in-mold labelled plastic bottle or other substrate
comprising a substrate body, a label formed of a coextruded
layered film material and containing within itself a
separation interface, said label being applied to the
substrate body, said layered film material comprising two
polymeric film plies each comprising one or more film layers,
said film plies being on contact with each other and
presenting to each other surfaces of different composition at
a pair of contacting interior faces joined at said separation
interface, one of said film plies comprising printable in-mold
label facestock, including a printable face layer, the other
of said film plies comprising a core or stiffening layer of
polymetric [sic, polymeric] film and a heat-activatable
adhesive layer, said film plies adhering to each other at said
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