Appeal No. 2002-1850
Application 08/288,574
claim 1 as earlier indicated. We do not, however, sustain the
anticipation rejection of claims 2 and 26.
Appellant’s sole independent claim 1 on appeal reads as
follows:
Packaging envelope for the packaging of formable meat, in
combination with formable meat, comprising,
(a) at least two layers of superimposed plastic foils, of
which at least one plastic foil is elastic and the other plastic
foil is at least virtually gas-impermeable;
(b) said packaging envelope is permanently elastic;
(c) said packaging envelope stretches immediately before and
upon the placement of said formable meat in the elastic envelope;
(d) said packaging envelope spontaneously contracts in its
cross-section after placement of the meat and automatically
forces our air present between the packaging envelope and the
meat; and
(e) said packaging envelope forces the formable meat into a
nearly circular cross-section shape after it is placed in the
packaging envelope.
In our opinion, the packaging envelope in combination with
formable meat, as set forth in appellant’s claim 1, reads on the
teaching of Korlatzki.
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