Appeal No. 97-2718
Application 08/529,228
least one of the package portions is a mold having a mold cavity
or interior 12, as it is called in the claims, for receiving a
moldable material. According to claim 1, a package of the
moldable material is disposed in the interior of container.
According to claim 9, the only other independent claim on appeal,
the moldable material is of the activatable type and is disposed
in the container in its non-activated form. In use, the craft
package is opened to access the moldable material in the
container. The moldable material is then dispensed into the mold
cavity to mold a three-dimensional object. According to claim 1,
the object is an instrument face (e.g., a clock face 13).
A copy of the appealed claims is appended to appellant’s
brief.
The following references are relied upon by the examiner
as evidence of obviousness in support of his rejections under 35
U.S.C. § 103:
Graber 3,029,936 Apr. 17, 1962
Siefert 4,720,820 Jan. 19, 1988
Grupe 5,121,835 Jun. 16, 1992
Dietterich et al. 5,413,472 May 9, 1995
(Dietterich)
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