Appeal No. 1999-2795
Application 09/046,111
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-8. The amendment after
final rejection (Paper No. 8) filed July 19, 1999, has been
entered.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention relates to a web of record
members with crushed areas or cracks through the web so that
the position of the web can be detected by an optical
detector.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A web of record members adapted to be registered in
a printer, comprising: a longitudinally extending web
of printable record material, a series of optically
detectable crushed areas in the record material web,
the crushed areas being disposed at equally
longitudinally spaced intervals for optically feed
registering the record material web.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Smith 3,958,051 May 18, 1976
Smith discloses a composite label web having notches in
one marginal side edge which can be sensed by a mechanical
or optical sensor in a label applicator, a recorder such as
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