Appeal No. 1997-3874 Application 08/446,295 The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows: claims 22-24 and 28-32 over Rausing in view of Taillie and either Schoder or Suzuki, and claim 33 over Rausing in view of Taillie and Imperial.2 OPINION We reverse the aforementioned rejections. Rejection over Rausing in view of Taillie and either Schoder or Suzuki We need to address only claim 22, which is the sole independent claim. Rausing discloses a method for producing documents such as passports, membership books and identification documents from a web by applying a thin coating of adhesive to one side of the web, printing text onto the other side of a web, folding the web to form a book page such that coatings of adhesive face one another, and joining the coatings of adhesive by simultaneously activating the adhesive and compressing the folded web (col. 1, line 62 - col. 2, line 9; 2 Although claim 33 depends from claim 22, the examiner does not reject claim 22 over Rausing in view of Taillie and Imperial. 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007