Appeal No. 1999-0114
Application No. 08/656,286
applied contact adhesive, or bond to one of the products.
Optionally, the wrapper is made of a heat shrinkage material,
such that subsequent to bonding, heat may be applied to shrink
the wrapper. According to appellant, since a wrapper made in
accordance with the claimed method is held in position by
contact adhesive, it may be easily removed by the consumer by
simply peeling apart the areas which are held together by the
contact adhesive.
Independent claim 11, the sole independent claim on
appeal, is illustrative of the appealed subject matter. A
copy thereof appears in an appendix to appellant’s main brief.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner as
evidence of obviousness are:
Weiss 2,885,839 May 12, 1959
Plante 4,244,471 Jan. 13, 1981
Åkerström et al. (Akerstrom) 4,627,218 Dec. 9,
1986
Cosmo 4,984,413 Jan. 15, 1991
The following rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are before
us for review:
(a) claims 11, 12 and 14, unpatentable over Weiss in view
of Cosmo;
(b) claim 13, unpatentable over Weiss in view of Cosmo,
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