Appeal No. 1998-1930 Page 6
Application No. 08/517,183
in the factual basis for the rejection. See In re Warner, 379
F.2d 1011, 1017, 154 USPQ 173, 177 (CCPA 1967), cert. denied,
389 U.S. 1057 (1968).
With this as background, we analyze the prior art applied
by the examiner in the rejection of the claims on appeal.
Muk Kim discloses a pipe for a fishing rod. As shown in
Figure 1, the pipe includes a cylinder 1 having an outer
surface, and a flexible rectangular wrapper 9 positioned about
the outer surface. The wrapper has a predetermined design
thereon and is covered with a transparent preservative
coating. Muk Kim teaches (column 2, lines 45--48) that in the
preferred embodiment the wrapper 9 carries a predetermined
design 3 which displays pictures of fish which are dyed on the
wrapper.
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