Appeal No. 97-0256
Application 08/233,215
the term “book,” we share the examiner’s view as expressed on
pages 5 and 6 of the supplemental answer mailed May 16, 1997
(Paper No. 28), and further point out that Rogow specifically
indicates that the design therein is to “a book or article of
similar nature” (emphasis added). Moreover, since the
configuration of the article in Rogow is substantially the same
as that of the pad broadly set forth in claim 1 on appeal, we
must conclude that it is clearly usable in the manner recited in
claim 1.
As for dependent claim 6, we share the examiner’s view that
the front and back covers of the article in Rogow define “top and
bottom surfaces” of the pad, and that when the article is opened
to an intermediate page therein, the hinge seen at the left side
of the article in Figure 1 of Rogow becomes a “central hinge”
which extends vertically upwards (in the thickness dimension of
the hinge and out of the paper) from the top (front) and bottom
(back) surfaces and “through said writing surface.” With regard
to dependent claim 7, we observe that the “central hinge” as
described above also extends “parallel” to the top (front) and
bottom (back) surfaces, in the sense that it extends lengthwise
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