Appeal No. 2001-0242
Application No. 09/183,114
discontinuous areas of pressure sensitive adhesive composition,
such that the pressure sensitive adhesive composition only
partially coats said surface, and wherein the adhesive tape under a
tensile load of 10 N/cm has an extension of greater than 10% and,
when bonded to a substrate, can be removed from the substrate by
pulling on the adhesive tape in the direction of the plane of the
bond formed by the bonding of said adhesive tape to said substrate.
3. Backing material according to Claim 4 , wherein the self-
adhesive composition is a hotmelt adhesive composition having a
dynamic-complex glass transition temperature with a frequency of
0.1 rad/s of less than 5/C.
PRIOR ART
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner are:
Korpman 4,024,312 May 17, 1977
Takemoto et al. (Takemoto) 0 353 972 A1 Feb. 7, 1990
(Published European Patent Application)
Kreckel et al. (Kreckel) WO 92/11333 Jul. 9, 1992
(Published International Application under PCT)
REJECTION
The appealed claims stand rejected as follows:
1) Claims 16, 2, 4 and 12 through 15 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over the disclosure of Kreckel;
2) Claim 5 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the
combined disclosures of Kreckel and Korpman; and
3) Claims 3 and 6 through 11 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over the combined disclosures of Kreckel and
Takemoto.
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