Appeal No. 96-2712
Application 08/313,548
As for appellants' contention that Coit "expressly teaches,"
and that Clark "emphasizes," manual insertion of the cards
therein, we find absolutely no mention whatsoever of "manual
insertion" in these references, and no indication that the
insertion of the cards therein necessarily must be done by hand.
Nor do we find in Coit any emphasis placed on "wedge trapping" of
the card therein across preweakened fold lines, as urged by
appellants.
Moreover, we do not share appellants' view that Coit
"clearly teaches away from a flap" (brief, page 9), merely
because Coit shows no flap and happens to show a fold line
adjacent the side of the card opposite the pair of opposed
corners received in the corner pockets of the mailing folder
therein. Like the examiner, when we consider the combined
teachings of the applied references (Coit and Clark, or Coit and
Standal), we are of the opinion that it would have been obvious
to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellants'
invention to provide the mailing folder of Coit with a flap
formed from at least one closed slot cut through the body of the
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