Appeal No. 1999-0387 Page 6
Application No. 08/590,278
Claim 9 depends from claim 8. Since claim 8 was not
rejected as being anticipated by Drake and the limitations of
claim 8 are clearly not met by Drake, all the limitations of
claim 9 are not met by Drake. Similarly, claim 19 depends
from claim 17. Since claim 17 was not rejected as being
anticipated by Drake and the limitations of claim 17 are
clearly not met by Drake, all the limitations of claim 19 are
not met by Drake. Accordingly, the decision of the examiner
to reject claims 9 and 19 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is
reversed.
Drake discloses a record book or pad which is
manufactured with record sheets 2 and removable sheets 1
disposed in pairs. An image transfer element is provided for
transferring manuscript
notes 7, 7a from sheet 1 to sheet 2 in a pair. Each removable
sheet 1 has a line of weakness 5 whereby a portion 1a of that
sheet can be torn from a spine part 3 of the book or pad.
Drake teaches (column 3, lines 26-30) that each removable
sheet may be sub-divided (for example, by cut lines or
perforations) into two or more coplanar sheet portions each
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