The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was
not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board
Paper No. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MASAO FUKUDA
and MICHIHIRO KUBO
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Appeal No. 2004-2176
Application 09/996,624
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ON BRIEF
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Before PAK, TIMM, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judges.
PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s final rejection
of claims 1-5 and 18-20.
On page 5 of the brief, appellants state that the claims stand
or fall together. We therefore select the broadest claim from each
rejection, which are claims 1 and 3, set forth below:
1. A packaging machine comprising:
a cylindrical chute;
means for bending an elongated bag-making film into a tubular
form around said chute by mutually overlapping side edges of said
film;
a heater unit for longitudinally sealing said mutually
overlapping said edges of said film;
heater driving means for moving said heater unit between a
sealing position at which said heater unit contacts said film and
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