Appeal No. 1999-0114
Application No. 08/656,286
When the individual items packaged together comprise
containers such as milk cartons, Weiss indicates that the
closures 6 of the individual cartons should be located
diagonally opposite each other so that “either of the two
containers may be emptied without interfering with the other
container and without the need for breaking the band 10”
(column 3, lines 45-47; emphasis added). Weiss goes on to
states that the package produced by the disclosed method and
apparatus “is such that the
individual containers 1 are so firmly united with each other
that they in effect constitute a single unit” (column 12,
lines 38-40; emphasis added).
From our perspective, Weiss’s pressure sensitive adhesive
coatings 14 and 15 (column 2, lines 52-54) that firmly bond
with each other when brought into overlapping pressure contact
(column 2, lines 66-68) constitute a “contact” adhesive.
Accordingly, we do not agree with the examiner’s position to
the extent that it rests on the proposition that claim 11
distinguishes over Weiss on the basis that the adhesive used
in the claimed method is a “contact” adhesive. However, claim
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