Appeal No. 97-2145
Application 08/566,120
A review of the Colbert patent reveals to us that the
ornamental composite plate disclosed therein does not anticipate
and would not have rendered obvious the now claimed sun catcher,
as asserted by the examiner in the respective rejections on
appeal.
The examiner considers the opaque outline 3 on a first
surface of the panel (glass sheet) 1 of Colbert (Figures 2 and 4)
to be in registry with the etching 9 on a second surface (answer,
pages 3 and 4). We simply cannot agree with this assessment.
The word “registry,” in the context used in the
claims, and consistent with appellant’s underlying disclosure
(specification, pages 3 and 4 and Figures 1 and 2), may fairly be
defined as corresponding exactly.6
With the above understanding of the claimed term
“registry” in mind, we readily perceive that the disclosed spaced
6 Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam
Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1979.
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