Appeal 2007-3797
Application 10/453,061
Appellants’ invention is directed to a business form including a laser
printable paper sheet or stock and a moisture transport coating on a portion
of at least one side of the paper. The coating is aimed at accelerating
moisture transport through open pores of the paper and stabilizing the
moisture content thereof to aid in the prevention and resolution of curling
problems associated with handling the paper, particularly as a result of
moisture loss after exposure of the paper to heat from a fusing station of a
laser printer (Specification ¶¶ 0015- 0017). The business form is disclosed
as a label/form combination (Specification ¶¶ 0010 and 0011). Claim 1 is
illustrative and reproduced below:
1. A business form comprising:
a sheet of laser printable stock, the laser printable stock
comprising bond paper having no heat activated image producing
chemical coating thereon; and
a moisture transport accelerating and stabilizing coating on at
least a portion of at least one side of the sheet of laser printable stock.
The Examiner does not rely on any prior art references as evidence in
rejecting the appealed claims.
Claims 1-33 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph as
lacking written descriptive support in the Specification, as filed.
We affirm the Examiner’s rejection. Our reasoning follows.
Appellants argue the claims together as a group. Accordingly, we
select claim 1 as the representative claim on which we decide this appeal as
to this ground of rejection.
Here, the Examiner maintains that the amended language added to
claims 1, 22, 26, and 29 (Amendment filed December 08, 2005) lacks § 112,
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