Appeal 2007-0293
Application 10/630,982
According to Appellant, the invention is directed to a method of
protecting portions of containers from being coated while other portions of
the containers are coated (Br. 7). The method includes the steps of making
the containers from a first material, coating the containers with a second
material, and, prior to coating, covering the portions of the container that
should remain uncoated with shields of the first material, where the shields
are made from scraps of the first material used to make the container (id.).
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and is reproduced below:
1. A method of protecting portions of containers from being
coated while other portions of the containers are being coated,
comprising:
making containers from a first material;
coating the containers with a second material; and
prior to coating, covering portions of the containers to remain
uncoated with shields of the first material,
wherein the shields are made from scraps of the first material
produced from the making of the containers.
In addition to Appellant’s admitted prior art (hereafter APA), the
Examiner relies on the following references as evidence of obviousness:
Carl US 3,740,259 Jun. 19, 1973
White US 4,667,620 May 26, 1987
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