Appeal 2007-3317
Application 10/681,826
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2 DISCUSSION
3 We will not sustain the Examiner’s rejection because there is no
4 teaching in the prior art of a method of connecting foil strips to a net bag
5 including the step of supplying the foil strips in a coupled manner from one
6 foil stock. Pannekeet clearly teaches that the foil strips, which are connected
7 to net bags, are supplied from two separate reels 11 and 15.
8 Kurth relates to the formation of net bags themselves from a plurality
9 of strips and does not relate to foil strips. Kurth does not disclose supplying
10 at least two strips of material with repeating printing patterns in a
11 longitudinal direction thereon as one strip from a supply reel. As such,
12 Kurth does not disclose supplying two strips of material of any kind in a
13 coupled manner as required by the claims.
14 Antonacci does not cure the deficiencies of Pannekeet and Kurth.
15 There is simply no teaching in the prior art of a method of manufacturing
16 bags wherein the netting material which forms the bags is connected to at
17 least two foil strips which are supplied in a coupled manner from one foil
18 stock.
19 The decision of the Examiner is reversed.
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22 REVERSED
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