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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7735874 | Protective label A protective label including: a printable base panel; a transparent securing flap; a protective flap; wherein the base panel is affixed to and substantially sealed with the transparent securing flap; and wherein the protective flap maintains the legibility of the pr... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7673909 | Dual-adhesive label for applying to an article, particularly an item of cosmetic product packaging A label intended to be applied to an article, and in particular to an item of cosmetic product packaging. The label includes a substrate having a first face which is covered, at least in part, by a first printing. A second face of the substrate is intended to be adh... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7455323 | Lottery ticket with metalized scratchoff layer A lottery ticket having a substrate layer with game data printed in a game area and which is arranged to prevent access to the game data from a rear surface of the substrate and has at least one fixing layer applied over the game data in the game area so as to preve... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7438322 | Label A label for affixing to a container of produce is disclosed, the label including a front portion for carrying labelling indicia, and an adhesive backing; the front portion including a token for identifying the produce, the token being readily severable from the fron... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7422781 | Tamper indicating devices and methods for securing information A tamper indicating device. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides a backing having a first side and a second side, wherein the backing comprises a first phase and a second phase, wherein the backing has a first level of light diffusion, and when a peeling... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7416222 | Folding card A three ply folding card. A method of manufacturing folding cards involving folding two edge portions of a sheet over a central portion to superposition two or three plies of the folding card against each other. A blank for forming folding cards having a plurality o... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7398999 | Visual verification of prescription medication and information and warning label The present invention is a unique prescription label, printed on one side that allows a consumer to check and verify the accuracy of the prescribed medication as well as to provide additional information on the medication container by increasing the usable size and ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392952 | Gift card assembly A gift card system includes a gift card imprinted with indicia identifying the issuer, an adhesively coated security label permanently adhered to the card and imprinted on one surface with the value of the gift, and a gift record for recording information concerning... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7357423 | Multi-label mailing form including certified self-mailer A mailing form for facilitating the mailing of a document is disclosed. The mailing form includes a bottom ply of the mailing form and an interspersed between the first side of the bottom ply (i.e. inner side of the bottom ply) and the second side of the top ply (i.... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357422 | Label A label having information carriers provided with an imprint, with each semantically identical and provided in different languages and which are joined to one another as pages of a booklet by means of an adhesive binding. The transparent covering is placed on top of... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357249 | Optical disc stacked removable label marketing system An optical disc media marketing system used to advertise various products or services to users of optical disc products. The system includes the use of a standard optical disc and a jewel case with a recessed cavity formed therein to receive the optical disc. If the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7323235 | Multi-strip promotional piece The present invention is an multi-strip promotional piece that can be used as an insert for a food product package and that includes a number of printed strips releasably secured to one another by an adhesive. The strips each include an inner polymeric film layer pr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323077 | Automated method of preparing and producing pull tabs and a protective film and an extruded section having a protective film comprising pull tabs of said type According to the invention, the section (2) comprises a double-sided adhesive strip (8) which is covered with a protective film (11). The aforementioned protective film (11) is removed by way of a pull tab (12) before gluing, the t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320483 | Medication reminder system A medication reminder system is provided for allowing patients, especially those with memory or eyesight problems, to improve compliance with a medication regimen that has been prescribed by their physician. The system is organized for ease of patient identification... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7309082 | Document sheet with recessed cavity and window to allow two-sided printing of an object received therein A document sheet with a removably attached object thereon having simplified inexpensive construction and having a reduced cross-sectional thickness enabling use of the sheet in printers without the risk of jamming the printer. The document sheet also allows both sid... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7303212 | Two-way shipping label construction A two-way shipping label construction includes a strip of release material, a first printable label, and a second printable label. The first label is adhered to the strip of release material by the first pressure sensitive adhesive coating and includes at least one ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7294380 | Film for labels that are removable Clear and opaque polymeric film structures for providing clear and opaque labels that are removable, respectively. The film structure includes a core layer and first skin layer, wherein the first skin layer contains a polymeric matrix of a material that allows a lab... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7284696 | Change card A transaction card allows for retail purchases involving fractional dollar amounts to be completed without the use of coin currency. Change amounts involving less than one dollar can be either credited to or debited from a monetary value stored on a smart chip in th... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7264278 | Customer registration system and corresponding method of use The system includes a registration log and a sequence of registration labels (101-120) detachably secured to a first substrate (100). Each label has indicia (122) that identifies to the position of the label in the sequence and includes s... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258368 | Extended text wrap label and method of manufacture thereof An extended text wrap label includes a base ply and at least one top ply. The base ply has a first lengthwise dimension, a first widthwise dimension, a top surface that is capable of bearing graphic images, and a bottom surface that is capable of bearing graphic ima... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251347 | System and method for authentication of a workpiece using three dimensional shape recovery A workpiece authentication system uses shape recovery techniques to extract explicit three dimensional (ā3-Dā) features of the surface geometry of the designated portion of a workpiece from images produced using different lighting conditions. The system then bas... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246823 | Business form with label stock and message bearing stock A business form according to the present invention including a ply of label stock, a ply of release liner stock, and a ply of message or record bearing stock, may be configured as either a continuous or cut sheet form. The ply of label stock has one side coated with... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7225052 | Method for simultaneously preparing pharmacy vial label and drug-specific warning labels A method for preparing both main label and warning label portions for a container useful in dispensing drugs by a pharmacist in which the main label portion contains specific drug or patient information and the warning label portion contains one or more warnings spe... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7214891 | Method and apparatus for printing merchandising information A weighing scale which includes a label printer for printing labels having a detachable portion. A label cassette is easily inserted or removed from the weighing scale. The label cassette is changed depending on the type of label to be printed. Standard labels can b... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7201821 | Identifying medium and identifying method for object The present invention provides a discrimination medium A for discriminating the authenticity of an article by providing an optically discriminating mark on the article. A film 20 having a light reflecting layer of a polymer cholesteric liquid crystal having a... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198196 | Stored-value card with magnet A stored-value card assembly comprises a stored-value card and a magnetic sheet. The stored-value card defines a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first surface includes an account identifier linking the stored-value card to at least... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7195689 | Double-sided labels and methods of manufacture and use The invention generally relates to double-sided labels and methods of manufacture and use. More specifically, the invention relates to labels that include printed information on their front and back sides. The labels also include a detachable portion, which includes... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7179514 | Laminar label as well as a method and an apparatus for producing the same A laminar label (7) which comprises a base label (4), which is attached to a release web (3) by means of a glue layer (5) on top of which base label a supplement (13) is applied, which is covered by a top label (11). The bas... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7172220 | Extended text label for a tube container and method of manufacture thereof An extended text label is provided for a tube container, wherein the tube container includes a product dispensing end and a filling end opposite the dispensing end. The filling end is adapted to be sealed by a crimp method, subsequent to filling the tube container w... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7172803 | Laser markable carrier unit The present invention relates to the laser inscription of a flexible inner support layer of a multilayered support unit, which is distinguished by the fact that the laser inscription of the inner support layer is carried out through one or more flexible outer laser-... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7160594 | Protective material with punched shaped parts A protective material with punched shaped parts, obtainable in a converting process for producing single-sidedly or double-sidedly adhesive punched shaped parts, there being placed atop the protective material a single-sidedly or double-sidedly adhesive tape from wh... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7153556 | Integrated forms and method of making such forms A form that incorporates either a label or card such that the form can be reliably printed on by the end user and manufactured less expensively. The integrated label form includes a top printable substrate and a liner substrate mated together by an adhesive. The top... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7153557 | Security document with marker The present invention relates to a self-adhesive or thermally bondable security document that can be affixed to an article, characterized in that it comprises at least one medium capable of receiving print on the front side, said medium having, on its reverse side, ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7147913 | Display strip The present invention relates to a display strip to hold commodity-containing bags. It can facilitate to make a process of attaching the bags thereto automate. It enables commodity-containing bags to be removed therefrom without having their appearance degraded. The... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7122157 | Specimen label A substrate removably attached to a container that can be linked electronically to the operating stations in a laboratory and/or removed and subsequently attached to a document or another container. More particularly, the substrate is a partitioned label with human ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7108909 | Stretchable thermoplastic labels on cryogenic containers A method for cryogenic specimen identification employs marking a stretchable pressure-sensitive vinyl label, and placing it on a storage vial or other container that can withstand a temperature of approximately ā80 degrees C. or lower, preferably contact with the ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103396 | Portable telephone apparatus and control method thereof When the key operation area is pressed, a decision is made about whether the key is pre-registered a single button dialing telephone number or not (step 3). In case a decision is made that a single button dialing telephone number is pre-registered to the key ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099832 | Method and apparatus for defining routing of customers between merchants A server or Internet service provider computer selects a soliciting merchant and an outputting merchant based on various factors. In one embodiment, the soliciting merchant is selected if its activity rate (e.g. sales rate) is low. The outputting merchant provides o... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7086666 | Identification card with embedded halftone image security feature perceptible in transmitted light An information-bearing laminar assembly, suitable for use as an identification card, is disclosed. The assembly is characterized by the provision therein of an embedded halftone image security feature that becomes visible essentially only when the assembly is view i... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7077435 | Label structure and method of forming the label structure A label structure and method, with the label structure including a base panel for affixing to a surface and having a back face having an adhesive applied thereon. A first leaflet is positioned adjacent to a front face of the base panel. The first leaflet comprises a... | 07/18/2006 |
