Appeal 2007-1925
Application 09/391,869
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Mary Smith (“Appellant”) seeks our review under 35 U.S.C. § 134 of the
Examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-21 and 32-36. We have jurisdiction under
35 U.S.C. § 6(b) (2002). We affirm.1
THE INVENTION
Appellant claims a pocket insert for a bound book, which includes at least
one pocket adapted to receive and retain supplemental material that cannot easily
be bound directly to the book binding, such as a diskette or CD-ROM
(Specification 1:3-7). Claims 1, 10, and 35, reproduced below, are representative
of the subject matter on appeal.
1. A book comprising multiple pages and a pocket insert
bound along a binding, wherein the pocket insert
comprises:
(a) a base sheet of paper material having a length
and width comparable to the length and width of a book
page, the base sheet comprising a binding edge bound to
the binding, the base sheet being one ply and having a
planar first surface and a planar second surface; and
(b) a pocket sheet of paper material being one ply,
the pocket sheet having a planar inner surface, a planar
outer surface, and a perimeter defined by an attached
edge section on the inner surface and a free edge section
on the inner surface, at least a portion of the attached
edge section being one of chemically bonded, fused or
1 Only those arguments actually made by Appellant have been considered in this
decision. Arguments which Appellant could have made but chose not to make in
the Briefs have not been considered and are deemed to be waived. See 37 C.F.R.
§ 41.37(c)(1)(vii) (2004).
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