Ex Parte SMITH - Page 11



            Appeal 2007-1925                                                                                
            Application 09/391,869                                                                          
                         and teaches an arrangement for loose leaf pockets (Dick, p. 1,                     
                         ll. 16-25).                                                                        
                   15. Dick teaches and displays a pocket that is stitched or otherwise                     
                         suitably secured to a fly leaf along three of its four edges to define a           
                         closed pocket with an opening along its fourth edge (Dick, p. 1,                   
                         ll. 54-60, Fig. 1).                                                                
                   16. Dick acknowledges that the pocket may be secured by any suitable                     
                         means (Dick, p. 1, l. 90).                                                         
                   17. Ruebens describes an improved photo album in which a transparent                     
                         cover is attached to three edges of each display page to form one or               
                         more pockets (Ruebens, col. 2, ll. 52-54, col. 3, ll. 40-42, Fig. 1).              
                   18. The transparent cover is attached to the display page by lines of                    
                         attachment by any convenient means such as various well-known                      
                         adhesives (Ruebens, col. 3, ll. 53-55).                                            
                   19. Figure 1 of Ruebens shows that the transparent cover is attached to the              
                         display page by lines of attachment along its upper and lower edges                
                         and also via an additional line of attachment parallel to the upper and            
                         lower edges to separate two pockets formed between the transparent                 
                         cover and the display page (Ruebens, Fig. 1, col. 4, ll. 39-46).                   
                   20. The prior art differs from the disputed claim limitations only in its                
                         failure to explicitly state a pocket insert construction “rendering the            
                         insert passable through a copier or printer in sequence with a sheet of            
                         paper.”                                                                            

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