Appeal 2006-3311
Application 10/392,525
1 5. DeMay Figure 8 illustrates a reclosable food container made from
2 the blank of Figure 1. (DeMay, col. 4, ll. 15-18).
3 6. DeMay’s blank of Figure 1 has a bottom panel 4 (DeMay, col. 4, ll.
4 41.)
5 7. DeMay’s blank of Figure 1 has a first pair of opposing side panels
6 7, 8 extending from the bottom panel 4. (DeMay, col. 4, ll. 41-48).
7 8. DeMay’s blank of figure 1 has a second pair of opposing side
8 panels 5, 6 extending from the bottom panel 4. (DeMay, col 4, ll. 41-48).
9 9. DeMay’s blank of Figure 1 has a plurality of foldable gussets (9,
10 10, 11, 12) each connecting two adjacent side panels (5, 6, 7, 8) (DeMay,
11 col. 4, ll. 45-48)
12 10. DeMay’s food container of Figure 8 illustrates a first pair of
13 opposing closure panels (17, 18) extending from the first pair of opposing
14 side panels (7, 8).
15 11. DeMay’s blank of Figure 1 and food container of Figure 8 have
16 one hook closure 19 on closure panel 17.
17 Collins
18 12. Collins describes a paperboard container with releasably
19 fastenable overlapping closure flaps. (Collins, col. 1, ll. 1-5).
20 13. Collins describes an interlocking closure flap which is
21 “inexpensive to form, which is easy to fasten and unfasten, and which will
22 hold securely upon being fastened” (Collins, col. 1., ll. 6-10).
23 14. Collins Figure 1 is reproduced below (slightly reduced):
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