Ex Parte Sokola - Page 6

                Appeal 2007-2096                                                                                  
                Application 10/611,765                                                                            

                Seder foods which would be visually attractive to children.  We find                              
                Brenkus would have disclosed to one of ordinary skill in this art a plate with                    
                shaped compartments which can receive on their upper surface                                      
                correspondingly shaped cards with diet reminder information graphically set                       
                forth thereon.  We find Gruneisen III would have disclosed to one of                              
                ordinary skill in this art a basketball drink container which has situated on                     
                the rim thereof a miniature basketball.  Gruneisen III describes the miniature                    
                basketball in part in Fig. 7 in “top plan view inside the bottom hemisphere                       
                thereof, the top hemisphere removed for ease of illustration,” and in Fig. 8 in                   
                “bottom plan view inside the top hemisphere thereof, the top hemisphere                           
                removed for ease of illustration;” the miniature basketball otherwise                             
                depicted as a whole without apparent means to separate the hemispheres                            
                (Gruneisen III Figs. 1-6).                                                                        
                       Appellant acknowledges in the Specification that “[n]ovelty                                
                dinnerware” takes many forms, “is commonly produced for the amusement                             
                of children, and sometimes adults,” can “include images of cartoon                                
                characters or other graphics attractive to children,” and can be “designed                        
                with a serious message and with an adult consumer in mind, or with the                            
                intention of instructing a child (or adult) in some serious pursuit”                              
                (Specification 1).                                                                                
                       We determine the combined teachings of Buj, Strandberg, Frucher,                           
                and Brenkus, the scope of which we determined above, provide convincing                           
                evidence supporting the Examiner’s case that the claimed invention                                
                encompassed by claims 1 and 16, as we interpreted this claim above, would                         
                have been prima facie obviousness of to one of ordinary skill in the novelty                      


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