Appeal No. 1996-3880 Page 9
Application No. 08/305,441
Muliterno. Claim 1 is not restricted to a wooden pencil.
Accordingly, the examiner should consider whether or not it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at
the time the invention was made to have modified a mechanical
pencil in accordance with the teachings and suggestion of
Muliterno to observe the decrease in lead and thereby effect
the claimed invention.
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