Appeal No. 96-2779
Application 08/151,944
ordinary skill in the art without any specific hint or
suggestion in a particular reference. In re Bozek, 416 F.2d
1385, 1390, 163 USPQ 545, 549 (CCPA 1969).
Applying these principles to the presently appealed
claims, the examiner’s conclusion that the combined teachings
of Brown and Moorhead would have suggested the subject matter
recited in claim 1 is well founded. A person of ordinary
skill in the art would have readily appreciated as a matter of
common sense that Brown’s method is limited in terms of the
area over which the message can be impressed in a reasonable
amount of time. Further, the ordinarily skilled artisan would
have readily appreciated that Moorhead’s teachings of
providing a roller means to facilitate impressing a pattern in
wet concrete is not limited to stamping concrete but has a
broader applicability to other processes where impressing a
repetitive pattern is done manually. These considerations
would have provided the artisan with ample suggestion to
provide an impressing means in Brown whereby the messages are
impressed into the sand by rolling contact between the
impressing means and the compliant ground to enhance the
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