Appeal 2007-0705
Application 10/431,127
We agree with the Examiner’s findings of fact for each of the applied
references to which we add the following. Reibold includes snap fasteners
on the frame for easy assembly and removal (Reibold, e.g., col. 1, ll. 40-44).
Vaghi’s Figs. 28(a)-(g) illustrate the different fasteners for securing the
weighting system comprising an electronic scale to the back of a flat panel
display in a manner to permit its removal from the display (Vaghi, e.g., col.
3, ll. 8-10, col. 14, l. 48, to col. 16, l. 45, and Figs. 25 to Fig, 28(g)).
Gillespie discloses magnetic material, hook and loop, adhesive material, and
“other type of fasteners” to removably couple the advertising medium to the
mat (Gillespie, e.g., col. 1, l. 46, to col. 2, l. 3, col. 4, ll. 8-64, and Figs. 1-3).
We determine the combined teachings of Artwick, Reibold, Vaghi,
Gillespie, and Vela, the scope of which we determined above, provide
convincing evidence supporting the Examiner’s case that the claimed
invention encompassed by claim 1, as we interpreted this claim above,
would have been prima facie obviousness of to one of ordinary skill in the
arts familiar with the removable attachment of mats and other materials to
substrates with a variety of fasteners.
Contrary to Appellants’ contentions, the Examiner has established that
one of ordinary skill in the art would have been aware of a variety of
fasteners for removably attaching one substrate to another as evinced by
Vaghi and Gillespie, and would have substituted one of these alternative
equivalent fasteners for another where the substitution would predictably
result in a removable attachment appropriate for the substrate. In this
respect, this person could have reasonably selected a flexible magnetic
material from among those suggested by Vaghi and Gillespie for removably
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