Appeal No. 1998-0566
Application No. 08/396,005
slots to receive the material upon which the graphics are
printed. As was the case above, Fan fails to cure the basic
defect in the teachings of Kanzelberger, and thus these
references fail to establish a prima facie case of obviousness
with regard to the subject matter of claim 8, and we will not
sustain the rejection. Claim 11 has been rejected as
being unpatentable over Kanzelberger and Rader. This claim
does not require that the back surface of the plastic plate be
exposed to view, as was the case with claim 1, and therefore
the deficiency in the teaching of Kanzelberger that resulted
in reversing the rejections of claim 1 and the claims
dependent therefrom is not an issue here. For the reasons set
forth below, we find ourselves in agreement with the examiner
that the combined teachings of Kanzelberger and Rader
establish a prima facie case of obviousness with regard to the
subject matter recited in claim 11, and we will sustain this
rejection.
Claim 11 is directed to a system “for displaying graphic
material on a solid and unitary badge size block of plastic.”
The system comprises a textured strip on the front of the
block (36 of Kanzelberger), a thin strip of transparent self-
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