Appeal No. 97-2456
Application 08/424,064
indicia thereon to facilitate the measurement of fractional
lengths with a minimum of errors and loss of time”
(specification, page 1). Claim 1 is illustrative and reads as
follows:
1. A measuring device comprising:
an elongated member having a measuring edge with a finite
length; and
measuring indicia including successive groups of equally
spaced color coded measuring marks located adjacent to and
extending along the length of said measuring edge and a different
group label identifying each of said successive groups;
wherein each individual measuring mark corresponds to a
selected fractional portion of each of said successive groups and
has a different color than all of the remaining measuring marks
in said group and is the same color as said measuring marks in
each of said successive groups which correspond to the
corresponding fractional portion in each of said successive
groups.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Hamalainen 1,142,418 Jun. 8, 1915
Glaese 4,323,234 Apr. 6, 1982
Jones, Jr. (Jones) 5,335,421 Aug. 9, 1994
Cruickshank 2,186,692 Aug. 19, 1987
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