Appeal No. 96-3553
Application 08/324,476
locations, said vehicle coating being selected from the group
consisting of a top coating paint, an inner coating paint, an
underseal coating and a protective wax coating” (see page 4 in
the answer). In this regard, Dillon does not expressly identify
vehicles as being the sort of article which might be protected by
the disclosed identification system.
Guinta discloses “an antitheft security system for
automotive, marine, and other valuable personal articles, such
as objects of art and valuable collectible objects, based upon
a method involving the multiple and redundant application to an
article, and limited access cataloging, of invisible, indelible
registration code markings unique to each subscriber/property
owner” (column 1, lines 41 through 47). The registration code
markings may be composed of invisible inks or paints (see, for
example, column 3, lines 6 through 9, and column 5, lines 23
through 26).
According to the examiner, it would have been obvious
to one of ordinary skill in the art in view of the teachings of
Guinta “to have marked a vehicle with micro dots, as taught by
Dillon[,] in order to develop an identification system for a
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