Appeal No. 97-2456
Application 08/424,064
Claim 17 depends ultimately from claim 9 and defines the
claimed measuring device as including two members at right angles
to one another (i.e., a carpenter’s square) and first and second
sets of measuring indicia on respective first and second
measuring edges of the device with the marks in the second set
being the same color as the corresponding marks in the first set.
Jones teaches that the measuring device disclosed therein, which
has complementary measuring marks on its two measuring edges, can
take the form of a carpenter’s square. It would have been
obvious in view of Glaese to provide the Jones measuring marks
with the coloring required by claim 17 for the reasons discussed
above in connection with claim 1.
Finally, we shall sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. § 103
rejection based on the combined teachings of Jones, Glaese and
Cruickshank with respect to claims 4 and 13, but not with respect
to claims 2, 5, 11, 14 and 18.
Cruickshank discloses a tape measure composed of a flexible
tape having a measuring scale on one side and items of
information on the other side, a housing for storing the flexible
tape, and an index on the housing denoting the positions along
the measuring scale at which respective items of information are
located.
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