Appeal No. 1998-2418
Application No. 08/686,883
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to label roll packages
and ink roller packages (specification, p. 1). A copy of the
claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the
appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Burtis 1,214,750 Feb. 6, 1917
Jones 3,770,118 Nov. 6, 1973
Lane 4,875,620 Oct. 24, 1989
Prior Art as described by appellant on pages 1 and 2 of the
specification and in figures 8 and 9 of the drawing.
Claims 21 through 26 and 36 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite and for
failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the
invention.1
Claims 11, 21 through 30, 37 and 38 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over appellant's
disclosed prior art in view of Jones.
1 Rejection of claim 25 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being
indefinite in that there is no antecedent basis for "the tubular openings" was
overcome by an amendment after final rejection (see Papers No. 7 and 8).
2
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