Ex parte BADASH et al. - Page 8




          Appeal No. 98-1293                                         Page 8           
          Application No. 08/418,833                                                  


          rejection of claim 14 or of claims 15 and 17 through 22, which              
          depend therefrom.                                                           
               Independent claim 28 recites a greeting card having a                  
          sticker that includes a first mounting element whereby the                  
          sticker is removably mountable on the card and a second                     
          mounting element whereby it is mountable at another location.               
          For reasons analogous to those explained immediately above, it              
          is our view that Saetre does not render this language                       
          unpatentable either, and we will not sustain the rejection.                 


                                REMAND TO THE EXAMINER                                
               Our inspection of the application file reveals that the                
          appellant filed an Information Disclosure Statement (Paper No.              
          3, including copies of the cited references), which was                     
          received in Group 3500 some six months prior to the mailing of              
          the first office action on the merits (Paper No. 5).  However,              
          the examiner’s initials do not appear at the appropriate points             
          on FORM PTO-1449, which indicates that the examiner apparently              












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