Appeal No. 2000-0206 Page 15
Application No. 08/699,328
what he or she must do at the intersection while the octagons
inform the driver that a driver of another vehicle approaching
the intersection from a particular direction has a stop sign.3
Apparently, the fact that the octagons and "STOP" symbol provide
information as to the obligations of different drivers makes them
unrelated. Thus, it is clear to me that the octagons and "STOP"
symbol, as well as the information they provide, may at once by
viewed as unrelated to one another in one context and as related
to one another in another context.
Likewise, the arrow of the Lectric Lites sign provides
information (designation of a direction - straight ahead) which
is unrelated to the octagon symbol, in that it means something
different than "stop" or stop sign (the accepted meaning of an
octagon on a warning or regulatory sign). Moreover, the
information provided by the arrow is unrelated to the information
provided by the octagon, in that the octagon informs the driver
what he or she is to do (stop) whereas the arrow provides
directional or positional information (the direction in which the
3 As I see it, the information as to what other drivers must
do also provides the driver information as to what he or she must
do at the intersection.
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