Appeal No. 98-1254
Application No. 08/579,588
Feuer discloses a greeting card having removable display
portion 20 releasably secured thereto by a "light" adhesive 22
so that the removable display portion may be removed from the
card and attached to another surface for display purposes.
Although Feuer styles the removable display portion as a
"decal," this term is not used in its normal sense, or in the2
sense used by the appellant. In reality, Feuer's removable
display portion is a sheet having an image such as a fish
thereon and a "permanent" adhesive backing 32 which is covered
by a removable backing sheet 28. There is no mention in Feuer
of either a transferable ink or decalcomania. In an attempt
to overcome this deficiency, the examiner relies on the
teachings of Holoubek. Holoubek, however, teaches a method of
affixing heat transferrable indicia to a fabric surface of a
garment such as a T-shirt 37. To this end, Holoubek provides
2According to Webster's Third New International
Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, G. & C.
Merriam Co., Springfield, MA, 1971 "decal" is a shortened form
of the word -- decalcomania --. "Decalcomania" is further
defined therein as -- 1: the art or process of transferring
pictures and designs typically from specially prepared paper
to china, glass, or marble and permanently fixing them
thereto. 2a: a picture or design prepared for transfer by
decalcomania b: a paper on which designs are printed for
transfer printing --.
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