Ex parte WOOD - Page 8




          Appeal No. 96-0405                                                          
          Application No. 08/178,668                                                  

          claims 23 and 25 would have been suggested by the combined                  
          teachings of Anderson in view of Kent, Jr.  For reasons set                 
          forth, infra, we do not share the examiner’s point of view.                 


               When we set aside what appellant has taught us in the                  
          present application, and focus our attention upon the                       
          collective teachings of Anderson and Kent, Jr., we fail to                  
          perceive any suggestion that would have been derived by one of              
          ordinary skill in the art for making the modification                       
          proposed.                                                                   


               The Anderson patent discloses a window display form                    
          formed from a single sheet of material, e.g., ordinary                      
          corrugated paper board or double corrugated board.  As                      
          configured, the window display form was intended to be bent                 
          and configured into all sorts of positions and forms to give                
          different effects without the necessity of providing a                      
          plurality of separate units.  As depicted in Figures 2 and 7,               
          for example, the corrugated fiber board is cut scored to cut                
          the corrugations 3 and the outer surface 4, while leaving the               
          inner surface or back surfaces 5 intact.  As shown in Figure                

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