Appeal No. 2006-0680
Application No. 10/041,129
shrinkable multilayer film. To account for this shortcoming, the
examiner turns to Bauer.
Bauer pertains to multilayer packaging films particularly
suited for food products. For purposes of the rejection, the
examiner focuses on the embodiment shown in Figure 2, a heat-
shrinkable multilayer film 13 composed of an inside product-
contacting layer 14, an outside heat-resistant abuse layer 15 and
a plurality of internal layers 16-19. Bauer’s description of
these layers indicates that each can be made from a variety of
materials as long as certain parameters are met.
Combining the admitted prior art and Bauer to reject claim
1, the examiner submits that it would have been obvious
to have modified the method set forth in [the
admitted prior art] by having substituted the
bag structure disclosed in Bauer et al. for
the bag disclosed in [the admitted prior art]
because the substitution of one old and well
known bag structure for another old and well
known bag structure is routine in the art
[answer, page 4].
The examiner allows, however, that even as so modified in
view of Bauer, the admitted prior art still would not respond to
certain of the bag limitations in claim 1 including the one
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