Appeal No. 2005-2458 3
Application No. 10/003,900
1. A storage wrap material comprising
a sheet material having a thickness ranging from about 0.0001
inches (0.0025 mm) to 0.001 inches (0.025 mm), said sheet material
having a first active side and a second side, the first active side
comprising a plurality of three-dimensional non-adherent protrusions
extending outwardly from surrounding depressions and
an adhesive composition coating on at least a portion of the
depressions, wherein the adhesive composition coating has a thickness
less than the height of the non-adherent protrusions and from about
0.00001 (0.00025 mm) to about 0.0002 inches (0.0051 mm) in thickness.
(formatting and emphasis added).
It is the adhesive coating thickness limitation emphasized above that is the focus
of this appeal. There is no dispute that McGuire describes or suggests a storage wrap
material having the sheet structure required by the claims and an adhesive composition
coating contained within the depressions of the sheet. That the general conditions of
the claimed storage wrap material is taught by McGuire is further evident from a
comparison of Appellants’ Figure 3 with McGuire’s Figure 9.
It is the Examiner’s position that even though McGuire does not expressly
disclose the thickness range of the claimed adhesive composition coating, the guidance
provided by the reference with regard to the general conditions of the storage wrap
material indicates that the thicknesses were within the capabilities of those of ordinary
skill in this art; the workable and/or optimal thickness range for the adhesive coating
being the type of parameter readily determined through routine experimentation. The
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