Appeal No. 2001-0052
Application No. 09/229,216
invention from the prior art in terms of patentability.
Gulack, 217 USPQ 401, at 404. However, in the instant case,
it is very clear that the film identifying indicia is
functionally related to the flash reflector on which it
resides. The “film identifying indicia,” which is the printed
matter to which the examiner refers, is so functionally
related to the other claimed elements that such indicia is
formed by “integral depressed portions” of the flash reflector
such that the indicia is visible from outside the camera and
such that access to said film identifying indicia cannot be
had without breaking the flash tube to which the flash
reflector is adhered. Because the film identifying indicia,
or “printed matter,” in this case is so functionally
intertwined with the flash reflector of the camera, by being
formed of “integral depressed portions at least some of which
are differently shaped than the others to form a readable
message of different spatial forms,” visible from outside the
camera and being “light-reflecting to the same extent as the
remainder of said flash reflector in order to reflect flash
illumination produced by said flash tube in concert with the
remainder of the flash reflector,” and wherein the flash
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