Appeal No. 2002-2125
Application No. 09/078,914
broadest dependent method claim), claim 22 (the broadest apparatus
claim) and claim 19, which stands alone. Note In re Dance, 160
F.3d 1339, 1340 n.2, 48 USPQ2d 1635, 1636 n.2 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In
re King, 801 F.2d 1324, 1325, 231 USPQ 136, 137 (Fed. Cir. 1986);
In re Sernaker, 702 F.2d 989, 991, 217 USPQ 1, 3 (Fed. Cir. 1983).
These claims read as follow:
8. A method of providing text on a printed surface of each
of a plurality of printed products having printing thereon
comprising the steps of
conveying the printed products along a path of travel in an
overlapping imbricated stream and such that a border region of the
printed surface of each printed product is exposed by the
imbricated overlap, while
applying a partially transparent contrast panel to the
exposed border region of each printed product with the contrast
panel overlying the printing on the printed surface and allowing
the printing on the printed surface to be seen therethrough, and
forming information within or on each contrast panel, with
the contrast panel forming a contrast with respect to the
information so that the information can be easily seen and read.
11. The method as defined in Claim 8 wherein the applying
step includes adhesively bonding a label to the printed surface of
each printed product, and the forming information step includes
printing the information onto each label after it is adhesively
bonded to the printed surface.
19. The apparatus as defined in claim 22 wherein the
conveyor system comprises a plurality of clamps arranged one
behind the other in the conveying direction for gripping
respective ones of the printed products.
22. An apparatus for providing text on a printed surface
having printing thereon of each of a plurality of printed products
comprising
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