Appeal No. 96-2779
Application 08/151,944
terms of independent claim 14. Accordingly, the rejection of
claim 15 is not sustainable.
New Rejection Pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b)
Pursuant to our authority under 37 CFR § 1.196(b), we
enter the following new rejection.
Claims 1, 3, 5 and 9-13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over the newly cited Bruess
reference.
Bruess discloses a tire having a thread pattern
comprising a series of symbols each in the form of a stylized
message “Ohio.” It would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art to provide the tire of Bruess on an
automobile. The resulting combination would correspond to the
apparatus of claim 9. In this regard, Bruess’s tire having a
tread pattern in the form of raised symbols representing the
stylized message “Ohio” comprises means for temporarily
displaying including rolling impressing means, as called for
in the first two paragraphs of the body of claim 9. The
automobile on which such a tire is mounted comprises means for
rolling the rolling impressing means along the compliant
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