Appeal No. 2001-1765
Application No. 09/159,972
OPINION
In reaching our conclusion on the obviousness issue raised
in this appeal, this panel of the board has carefully considered
appellant’s specification and claims, the applied teachings,1 and
the respective viewpoints of appellant and the examiner. As a
consequence of our review, we make the determination which
follows.
We cannot sustain the rejection of appellant’s claims on
appeal.
Each of appellant’s independent claims 1, 3, 4, and 9, drawn
to an apparatus for printing and dispensing labels releasably
adhered to a carrier web, set forth the feature, in differing
terms, of a slip-clutch that acts to limit the amount of driving
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1 In our evaluation of the applied prior art, we have
considered all of the disclosure of each document for what it
would have fairly taught one of ordinary skill in the art. See
In re Boe, 355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507, 510 (CCPA 1966).
Additionally, this panel of the board has taken into account not
only the specific teachings, but also the inferences which one
skilled in the art would reasonably have been expected to draw
from the disclosure. See In re Preda, 401 F.2d 825, 826, 159
USPQ 342, 344 (CCPA 1968).
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