Appeal No. 2006-0160 Page 6
Application No. 10/029,818
(column 5, line 21), the backing of the bandage is preferable clear and, if made from a
film or foam, is preferably perforated (column 3, lines 27-28). In light of Vesey’s
disclosure of perforations in the backing strip, the examiner’s application of Arginsky for
this feature would appear to be superfluous.
Vesey’s kit further includes a plurality of decorative elements 11 which may be
selected from adhesive stickers and adhesive tattoos. Adhesive stickers are typically
supplied on a sheet of release paper 15, with each sticker comprising a substrate
printed on one face and carrying an adhesive layer 13 on the other face thereof. Vesey
discloses that the adhesive material for the decorative elements is a pressure sensitve
adhesive and teaches, in the Example discussed in columns 5 and 6, applying the
adhesive to the release strip, evaporating the volatiles from the adhesive emulsion in an
oven and laminating a plasticized polyvinyl chloride film (the substrate) to the adhesive
to form a release paper-adhesive laminate which is then printed on the face of the
substrate opposite the adhesive with a decorative pattern which is then cured.
Following curing, the sheet containing the decorative patterns is kiss-scored in
registration with the pattern on the laminate. The adhesive stickers can then be
removed from the release paper and secured to the display surface of the bandage.
Amen-Ra A discloses an appliqué for application to a body part, such as a nail,
the appliqué comprising a thin flexible film having an array of decorative rhinestones
adhesively secured on an upper surface thereof and having a self-adhesive layer on a
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