Appeal No. 1996-1291
Application No. 08/182,409
Brief. We add the following primarily for emphasis and
completeness.
The claimed subject matter is directed to a decorating
technique especially usable by children in the decoration of
pumpkins for Halloween. See, e.g., specification, page 4,
lines 1-6. The decorating technique comprises spreading a
viscous composition on a surface area of an item, such as a
pumpkin, transferring a medium containing a design on a
pattern sheet to the viscous composition “in the initial
state,” removing the pattern sheet from contact with the
viscous composition before the composition is cured, and
curing the viscous composition to fix the transferred design.
See claims 1 and 17. The viscous composition is selected from
the group consisting of water-based non-animal glues, water-
based animal glues, water-based pastes and egg white. See
claim 32.
The examiner takes the position that “[i]t would have
been obvious at the time the invention was made to have
utilized Takiyama et al.’s resin transferring layer in
Kitabatake’s transfer process”(see Answer, page 5) and “to
have utilized Golchert’s method or producing printing transfer
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