Appeal No. 2001-1404
Application No. 09/145,399
document is focused, in particular, upon folding ironed bed
sheets into halves and quarters. Clearly, it is known to fold
labels using a clamping and jaw apparatus as revealed by PAXAR
8500, and to apply heat subsequent to a folding operation, as
per each of PAXAR 8500 and Parker. Nevertheless, it is
readily apparent to us that only by relying upon impermissible
hindsight would there have been a basis for combining the
teachings as proposed by the examiner to rework the Gilchrist
teaching and thereby yield the now claimed respective method
and apparatus of claims 1, 8, 13, and 14, and 25 for making a
looped label. As a final point, we observe that there would
have been no need to provide a heater to the Gilchrist
arrangement since the bed sheets are ironed before the folding
process commences.
We also do not sustain the rejection of claim 6 based
upon the combination of Gilchrist in view of PAXAR 8500.
As articulated above, we have determined that the
collective teachings of Gilchrist and PAXAR 8500, absent
hindsight, would not have been suggestive of their combination
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