Application of Paul Cohen and Thomas A. Taverna

MARTIN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the rejection by the examiner of claims 12 and 13 of appellant’s application for a patent on a method and apparatus for making and using thin flexible plastic garment, bags.

“12. The method of making and applying individual garment bags to articles of clothing hanging on garment hangers, each garment bag being open at the bottom and closed at the top so that it may be pulled downwardly onto the garment, comprising: the steps of, heat sealing a continuous flat tube of thin…