Appeal No. 98-1293 Page 7
Application No. 08/418,833
The Rejection Based Upon Saetre
Independent claim 14 is directed to a greeting card having
a sticker removably attached to its face. The sticker must be
“formed with first and second different adhesives” so that it
can be adhered to the card and then removed and adhered to
another surface. Like the appellant’s invention, Saetre
discloses a greeting card having a design that is attached to
the face of the card, and can be removed from the card and
attached to another surface. However, the Saetre design is on
a thin sheet of static cling material so that it is
electrostatically adhered to the various surfaces (column 1).
This is not an adhesive, in either the commonly used definition
of the term or in the manner in which it is used in the3
appellant’s specification. The reference fails to teach the
use of even a single adhesive, much less the required “first
and second different adhesives,” and therefore fails to
establish a prima facie case of obviousness with regard to the
subject matter of this claim. We will not sustain the
3See, for example, Merriam Webster’s Collegiate
Dictionary, Tenth Edition, 1996, page 14.
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