Appeal No. 96-3553
Application 08/324,476
wherein said information carriers are peptide chains
having a composition from which the secondary information can be
retrieved, the peptide chains being incorporated into at least
portions of a vehicle coating.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence
of obviousness are:
Dillon 4,243,734 Jan. 6, 1981
Schwartz et al. (Schwartz) 4,767,205 Aug. 30, 1988
Guinta et al. (Guinta) 5,083,814 Jan. 28, 1992
Butland 5,360,628 Nov. 1, 1994
(filed Jan. 22, 1993)
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as follows:
a) claims 1 through 4 as being unpatentable over Dillon
in view of Guinta;
b) claims 5 and 7 as being unpatentable over Dillon in
view of Guinta and Schwartz; and
c) claims 6 and 8 as being unpatentable over Dillon in
view of Guinta and Butland.
Reference is made to the appellants’ brief (Paper
No. 14) and to the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 15) for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner with
regard to the propriety of these rejections.
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