Ex parte STEPHENSON - Page 7




          Appeal No. 97-3400                                                          
          Application 08/584,908                                                      


          constitute two such examples of this article.  In Figure 1, the             
          article is in the form of an card or sheet carrying a series of             
          characteristic non-consecutive scenes of the film (page 2, lines            
          13-21).  The card further includes an area at the top of the card           
          or sheet for cataloging information, which may include a pocket             
          “for holding in place a removable transparent strip 11  carryinga                     
          dates or other variable matter” (page 2, lines 36-39).  The                 
          alternative article shown in Figure 2 comprises a short section             
          of ordinary motion picture film strip upon which non-consecutive            
          views from a particular motion picture film have been reproduced            
          (page 2, lines 70-73).                                                      
               Relating the Figure 1 article of Lowenstein to claim 1, we             
          find that Lowenstein’s Figure 1 article comprises an index print            
          sheet 10 having a series of pictures printed on one side thereof            
          (see page 2, lines 103-112), and an upper non-picture area                  
          including a holding means in the form of a pocket 11 which is               
          fully capable of releasably securing an appropriately sized film            
          medium to the sheet.  Regarding the terminology appearing in the            
          preamble and body of the claim relating the picture and non-                
          picture areas of the print index sheet to an inferentially                  
          recited film medium, Lowenstein’s print sheet meets this claim              
          terminology in that the arrangement of picture and non-picture              

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