Appeal No. 96-3032
Application No. 08/321,392
Although the appellants note that neither Murray nor
Taylor teach triangularly-shaped magnetic material (claims 2
and 10) or magnetic material "approximately the size of" the
triangularly-shaped rear member (claim 18), they do not appear
to dispute the above-noted position of the examiner that the
"specific shape of the magnets . . . is considered to be the
work of a skillful mechanics [sic, mechanic]; further no
advantage but for aesthetic [purposes] is seen in making the
magnets elongated, triangular, square, etc." In any event,
the above-noted statement by Taylor in lines 6-9 of column 3
that the flexible magnetic means is adhered to the "bottom" of
the irregularly-shaped display articles 16 and the showing in
Fig. 4 that the entire bottom or rear surface of the display
article 16 is provided with the flexible magnetic means 17,
would have fairly suggested to the artisan (when substituting
a magnetic-type securing means as taught by Taylor for the
pin-type securing means of Murray) to provide the magnetic-
type securing means over the entire triangularly-shaped rear
surface of Murray's holder, thus making the magnetic-type
securing means triangular in shape. Moreover, we are of the
opinion that one of ordinary skill in this art, when providing
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