Appeal No. 2005-0784
Application No. 10/138,315
direction parallel to said single linear path along which
said glue was applied to said rectangular sheet of paper.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness:
Lyon Jr. 3,920,267 Nov. 18, 1975
DeLise 5,685,530 Nov. 11, 1997
All of the claims on appeal are rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Lyon in view of DeLise.
We refer to the brief and reply brief and to the answer for
a thorough exposition of the opposing viewpoints expressed by the
appellants and by the examiner concerning the above noted
rejection.
OPINION
For the reasons which follow, this rejection cannot be
sustained.
On pages 3-5 of the answer, the examiner expresses his basic
position as follows:
With respect to claims 26-27, Lyon, Jr. discloses
a process of making multiple booklets, the process
comprises:
providing a single generally rectangular sheet
(25) having a plurality of scored lines, the sheet
being divided in approximately 3 equal regions;
providing spaced apart glue strips (10,12,14)
about 2/3 of a length of the sheet (figure 6);
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