Appeal No. 1999-0114
Application No. 08/656,286
11 further requires that the bond produced by the adhesive is
such that “the bonded end edge, or edges, of said wrapper is
able to be peeled off for separating said products.” As read
in light of appellant’s specification (see, for example, page
1, lines 30-33, and page 4, lines 6-10), we understand this
claim terminology as requiring that the bond produced by the
adhesive is such that it fails before the material of the
wrapper tears when an attempt is made to remove the wrapper by
lifting a bonded end edge of the wrapper. In that the
pressure sensitive adhesive coatings 14, 15 of Weiss produce
an immediate and highly effective bond when overlapped in
pressure sensitive contact (column 2, lines 65-68), and firmly
unite the individual items with each other so that they in
effect constitute a single unit (column 12, lines 39-41), and
secure the individual items together so that, in effect, they
can only be separated by breaking the band (column 3, lines
45-47), it is, at best, speculative to consider the adhesive
of Weiss as being capable of producing a bond of the type
called in claim 11 (i.e., so that the bonded end edges of the
band 10 are able of being peeled off for separating the
individual items). Accordingly, we hold that claim 11
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