Appeal No. 96-2779
Application 08/151,944
overall efficiency of the process. The resulting method would
meet all of the limitations of independent claim 1.
Considering next independent apparatus claim 9, the step
of providing an impressing means in Brown in view of
Moorhead’s teachings whereby the messages are impressed into
the sand by rolling contact also results in the apparatus of
claim 9. Accordingly, we will sustain the standing § 103
rejection of claim 9 based on the combined teachings of Brown
and Moorhead.
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