Appeal No. 96-3225
Application 08/229,322
coating of reflective material, prior to the application of
color. Thereafter, an imagewise pattern of color is applied
over the reflective composition. See pages 12 and 13.
This gives rise to two differences from the method
recited in claim 16. First, the claim requires that the color
be applied first and the reflective material thereafter;
however, in the Danish reference the opposite is the case.
Second, the claim also requires that the reflective material
be applied in a “second graphic segment . . . in a second
imagewise pattern,” whereas in the Danish method the
reflective material is applied in a coating over the entire
sheet.
Palmquist discloses a reflector for use as a road sign or
the like. It comprises a base layer upon which have been
deposited, seriatim, a reflective layer, a transparent color
layer, and a binder layer in which a plurality of spheres are
embedded. There is no teaching of making either the
reflective or the color layer in an “imagewise pattern.”
However, as the examiner has pointed out, the Palmquist system
manifests itself in color being visible in the daylight and
reflected color being visible under illumination by vehicle
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