Appeal No. 1999-0233
Application No. 08/787,893
Independent claim 2 is drawn to a core wound paper product
comprising, inter alia, a sheet wound about the core, with the
sheet having a principal direction and a length of at least 500
inches in the principal direction, spaced apart indicia disposed
throughout the principal direction, lines of termination disposed
throughout the principal direction, with the lines of termination
being registered with the indicia, and with the registration
varying less than about ± 0.125 inches in the principal direction
throughout the length of the sheet.
The examiner views the Matsumoto document as teaching a core
wound paper product, and determines that registration of
repeating indicia and lines of termination constitutes an obvious
design choice, with experimentation yielding an optimum operating
location (answer, page 3).
Contrary to the examiner’s finding, we do not discern a core
wound paper product within the Matsumoto teaching; in particular,
a core wound paper product with a sheet wound about a core and
having a length of at least 500 inches. As pointed out by
appellant (main brief, page 3), Matsumoto envisions printed
sheets, labels, and forms. The Matsumoto printed sheet product,
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