Appeal No. 1998-0999
Application No. 08/452,737
this type of construction allows for . . . the form
of games to play, pictures to draw or [separate]
adhesive stickers to adhere to the preprinted
placemat.
The separate adhesive stickers include pressure sensitive
adhesive stickers. Id. The admittedly known prior art placemat
containing drawings and admittedly known stickers associated
therewith are closest to the claimed placemat. The only
distinction between the admittedly known prior art placemat
containing drawings and separate stickers and the claimed
placemat appears to be that the claimed placemat integrates
conventional pressure sensitive adhesive stickers, such as
those described in Ashby, Limina and Brown, with drawings
associated therewith.
Upon return of this application, the examiner is to
determine whether one of ordinary skill in the art would have
been led or motivated to join or integrate conventional
pressure adhesive stickers (such as those shown in Limina,
Ashby and/or Brown), which are to be used with the drawings in
a placemat, with the placemat itself either for convenience or
for other practical reasons (such as connecting stickers to
related drawings in a placemat to avoid misplacement or misuse
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