Appeal No. 1999-2566
Application 08/868,935
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections.
Rejection over Steidinger in view of Holmes
Steidinger discloses a method for making an integrated
label wherein patches comprised of a backer, a pressure
sensitive adhesive layer and a release coating are transferred
to a web (11), which is comparable to the appellants’ form
web, by an applicator cylinder (28) (col. 4, lines 47-52; col.
5, lines 22-29; figure 2). Steidinger does not disclose
transferring the patches from a release-coated side of a
carrier web, with the adhesive contacting the carrier web, to
the reverse side of a form web, with the adhesive contacting
the reverse side of the form web, as required by both of the
appellants’ independent claims 1 and 25.
Holmes discloses transferring a label (32) from a backing
web (65) to second backing web (35), the leading portion of
the label adhering to the second backing web due to a pressure
sensitive adhesive or the like at their interface, at a time
when the trailing portion of the label is above the leading
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