Appeal No. 2004-0348
Application No. 09/901,220
folding and gluing the document container to form a
completed document storage container.
65. A method of manufacturing document storage containers for
storing documents, as recited in claim 54, wherein the step of
embedding includes the steps of:
depositing a radio frequency identification tag on the
document container stock in proximity to a seam;
applying glue to the area of the seam;
folding and gluing the seam to capture the radio frequency
identification tag within the glued portion of the seam.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Feiler 5,159,180 Oct. 27, 1992
Gillotte 5,424,858 Jun. 13, 1995
Wiholm 6,186,935 Feb. 13, 2001
Appellants' claimed invention is directed to a method of
making containers for storing documents, such as medical records.
The method entails die cutting material for the container from
document container stock, embedding a radio frequency
identification tag (RFID) in the container stock, and folding and
gluing the container stock to form a completed document storage
container. Claim 65 on appeal further provides for depositing
the RFID in proximity to a seam of the container, applying glue
to the seam, and "folding and gluing the seam to capture the
radio frequency identification tag within the glued portion of
the seam." According to appellants, "[t]he RFID tags which are
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