Appeal No. 1999-1965
Application 08/529,230
standing 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, rejection of
claims 5, 6, 17, 18 and 20.
With regard to the standing prior art rejections,
Boreali, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a
linerless label printer and transport system comprising a roll
of linerless labels 13 mounted on an unwind core 12, a label
guide 15, a transport plate 16, a driven platen roller 17, a
thermal printhead 18, a stripper blade/bridge 42, a cutter 60
and an exit plate 65. These elements are arranged as shown in
Figures 1 and 2.
As conceded by the examiner (see page 4 in the answer),
the Boreali system fails to meet the limitations in
independent claims 1, 16 and 19 requiring first and second
drive rolls for engaging the labels and taking them off a
supply. In the Boreali system, this function is performed by
driven platen roller 17. Boreali also fails to respond to the
limitations in independent claim 1 requiring the drive rolls
to be grooved and to be associated with first and second sets
of stripper and guiding fingers disposed in at least some of
the grooves.
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