Appeal No. 1999-2063
Application No. 08/744,432
a whole consistently indicates that the second embodiment
includes an upper panel, a center panel having upper and lower
portions, and a lower panel.
Claims 21-26 are newly presented in this reissue
application and are drawn to a multipurpose tuck label/form
comprising a label ply having a top edge and a bottom edge,
said label ply including a first panel and a second panel
connected along a transverse perforated fold line, and a pair
of side panels. The second panel is further defined in
independent claim 21 as “extending from a top edge of said
second panel at said transverse perforated fold line to a
bottom edge of said second panel at said bottom edge of said
label ply.”3 Thus, it is clear that claim 21, as well as
similarly worded claims 22-26, preclude the existence of a
third or lower panel adjacent the lower edge of the second
panel.4
3Independent claims 24, 25 and 26 contain similar
limitations.
4This, of course, is precisely what appellants intend.
See paragraph 4 of the reissue declaration, wherein it is
stated that the newly presented claims recite
inter alia, a label ply or a label including two
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