Ex Parte May - Page 6


                Appeal No. 2006-1776                                                                                                    
                Application No. 10/075,976                                                                                              

                    Accordingly, we do not sustain the examiner’s rejection of claims 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8,                              
                23 and 24 as rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable as obvious over                                       
                Jennel in view of Hinton.                                                                                               

                                      New Grounds of Rejection Under 37 CFR § 41.50(b)                                                  

                    Pursuant to 37 CFR § 41.50(b), we enter the following new grounds of rejection:                                     
                Independent claims 1and 8 are rejected under 35 U.S.C.  § 103 as unpatentable as                                        
                                            obvious over Lively in view of Acker.                                                       
                    Lively and Acker show:                                                                                              

                            A method of producing a personalized package wrapper [See Lively                                            
                        col. 2 para. 26 - gift-wrapping paper] that comprises at least one user                                         
                        submitted image [See Lively para. 53 – user could scan in the desired                                           
                        graphical image] , the method comprising the steps of:                                                          
                            displaying the user submitted image in a display area of an imaging                                         
                        device [See Lively para. 55 – the up-loaded graphical images 56 can be                                          
                        included in the custom-created design; also Fig. 9 image ref nbr 56];                                           
                            providing a window on said image to produce a windowed image, said                                          
                        window being movable relative to the image, and said windowed image                                             
                        comprising at least a portion of the image  [See Acker col. 7 line 66 to col.                                   
                        8 line 15 describing an image crop window and Fig. 5 showing the shapes                                         
                        of such windows - the user at 133 selects a crop shape from the table, and                                      
                        the selected shape is superimposed over the image at 135 so that the                                            
                        user can move and/or resize the image within the shape] ;                                                       
                            displaying a package wrapper image that includes a representation of                                        
                        at least a portion of a package wrapper which includes the windowed                                             
                        image thereon; [See Lively para. 44 - Once the Internet user has selected                                       
                        all of the desired graphical image options 56 (background, text, icons                                          
                        and overall layout of text and icons), the web site 20 push a web page                                          
                        28e to the screen 32 that displays the entire custom-created design                                             
                        150 (step 540]                                                                                                  
                            selecting a package wrapper size; and [See Lively para. 50 - under                                          
                        the printable media type parameter, the following sub-parameters can be                                         
                        included: printable media type, selected color of the media (paper color)                                       


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