Appeal No. 1998-0246
Application No. 08/397,536
of the first and second continuous webs along two sides of the cut product web is conducted at
a first sealing station and that the sealing of the remaining two sides is conducted at a second
sealing station. Petersen discloses sealing the upper and lower wrapping sheets on all four
sides of the swatches (i.e., along the edges of the sheets and in the spaces between the
swatches) at a single sealing station, using sealing rollers 35, 36 provided with recesses 49, 50,
and pressure contact portions 45, 46 and edges 47, 48. Seiden discloses sealing two
continuous sheets to one another by forming a continuous bottom seal 24 at a first sealing
station 32 and a series of side seals 25 perpendicular to the bottom seals at a second sealing
station 35. Even if Seiden would have suggested to one of ordinary skill in the art the use of
two sealing stations to seal the upper and lower wrapping sheets of Petersen together, there is
nothing in Seiden which would have suggested sealing the sheets along two sides of the swatch
at one of the stations and sealing the sheets along the remaining two sides of the swatch at the
other station, as specifically required by claim 20.
NEW GROUND OF REJECTION
Pursuant to the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we enter the following new ground of
rejection of claims 19 and 20.
Claims 19 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as being based
upon an original disclosure which fails to provide descriptive support for the subject matter
now being claimed.
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