Printed matter – Having revealable concealed information – fraud preventer or... – Identifier
Reexamination Certificate
1998-10-15
2001-02-20
Tsai, Henry (Department: 3722)
Printed matter
Having revealable concealed information, fraud preventer or...
Identifier
C283S067000, C283S070000, C283S101000, C283S105000, C283S900000, C281S002000, C281S005000, C428S043000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06189936
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to a composite label form. More particularly, this invention relates to a composite label form for use as a prescription label form or as a product label form.
Heretofore, various types of forms have been used in computerized systems in order to generate prescription labels which can be placed on dispensing vials by pharmacists. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,642,906 describes various techniques which have employed computer systems to generate prescription labels using computer driven printers. In addition, U.S. Pat. No. 5,642,906 describes a blank form from which a prescription label may be removed after being imprinted with information along with at least one auxiliary warning label. As described, once the prescription label has been printed with information concerning a prescription and a warning label has been printed with a warning, the labels are removed simultaneously from the form and may be subsequently separated so that the prescription label can be applied to a container. Thereafter, one or more of the warning labels may also be applied to the drug container. As described, the prescription label and warning labels are peelable from a common backing sheet and the warning labels are separated from the prescription label for example, by a tearing or pulling apart action after their simultaneous removal from the backing sheet.
It is an object of this invention to provide a prescription label form of simplified construction in which information labels may be handled separately from or together with a prescription label.
It is another object of the invention to eliminate any need of tearing an information label from a prescription label in a computer generated prescription label form.
Briefly, the invention is directed to a composite form which can be used as a prescription label form for use by pharmacies and pharmacists. In this regard, the form includes two basic sections. One section is provided with a printable surface for receiving printed information regarding a patient and/or a drug being dispensed while a second section includes a removable prescription label and one or more removable information labels which can be removed and placed on a drug container or vial after being imprinted with information, for example, a warning regarding the dispensed drug.
Typically, the prescription label form is fed through a printer of a computerized system so that the information regarding the patient and/or the drug can be printed onto the first section of the form. In this respect, this first section may be of two ply construction with a second or back ply providing lay flat characteristics for feeding through a printer.
In one embodiment, the second section of the prescription label form is connected to and is contiguous to the first section so that the two sections may be separated and the first section retained by the pharmacist as a file copy or given to a patient to provide information/instructions regarding the prescription.
In this embodiment, the second section of the prescription label form is made of two plies. A first or front ply contains the removable prescription label for receiving printed information regarding a prescription and the plurality of removable information labels for receiving printed information, for example, a warning. In this respect, the prescription label as well as the information labels are die cut within the front ply so as to be readily removed from the front ply by a pharmacist. The second or back ply is attached to the front ply with the prescription label of the front ply being adhesively secured to the back ply in order to be peeled therefrom. In this respect, the removable prescription label may be provided with a suitable adhesive so that after peeling from the back ply, the prescription label may be adhesively applied to a prescription vial.
The back ply also includes a removable section or insert which is die-cut from the second ply and which is adhesively secured not only to the information labels but also to a portion of the prescription label.
In use, after the prescription label form has been imprinted with information regarding the patient and a prescription, the pharmacist would peel off the prescription label from one side towards the side adhered to the removable section in the back ply. The prescription label, in turn, would pull out this section from the back ply and the section would, in turn, carry along the information labels from the front ply. The prescription label may then be peeled from the removed section and applied to a prescription vial. One or more of the information labels may likewise be peeled from the removed section and applied to the prescription vial.
In another embodiment, the two sections of the prescription label form are not separable from each other. Further, the second section of the form contains the removable prescription label and the removable information labels in one ply which is covered over by a patch which is attached to the first ply in overlying relation to the prescription label and the warning labels. The patch is also formed with a removable insert which is adhesively secured to a portion of the prescription label and to the information labels whereby upon removal of the prescription label from the first ply, the prescription label is peeled from the patch and the removable insert is removed from the patch with the information labels thereon.
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Dolce Anthony B.
Erber Alfred J.
Michlin Irving R.
AmeriComm Direct Marketing, Inc.
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
Thurston Alisa L.
Tsai Henry
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