Appeal No. 2006-0930
Application No. 09/905,540
21. The appellant did not dispute the examiner’s factual
finding that Snack-A-Dip® (Lightly Salted Tortilla
Chips & Salsa) includes a dip-condiment tub attached
to the container.
5 22. According to the appellant (Table 1 of the
specification at 6), Snack-A-Dip® (Lightly Salted
Tortilla Chips & Salsa) has a snack piece average
projected area of 1060 mm2 and a space efficiency of
0.134 g/cm3.
10 23. The subject specification refers to Zimmerman as
describing “[a]n optimized design of a curved snack
piece to accomplish high packed densities of a
plurality of curved snack pieces...” in accordance
with the claimed invention. (Specification at 14,
15 lines 14-25.)
24. Zimmerman describes a packaged container filled with
overlapping snack pieces placed therein, wherein the
packed volumetric bulk density is greater than about
10 x 10-5 g/mm3 to about 35 x 10-5 g/mm3 (i.e., about
20 0.1 g/cm3 to about 0.35 g/cm3). (¶0018 at 2; claim 14
at 10.)
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