Appeal No. 98-2034
Application No. 08/571,276
We REVERSE.
The appellants' invention relates to a casing board for
use as an information and storage device having a substrate
formed from a rigid paper material, an opaque intermediate
covering affixed to the substrate and a transparent outer
layer attached to the substrate with a turned-edge corner. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading
of exemplary claims 1 and 13 which appear in the "Appendix" to
the brief (Paper No. 11).
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Boelema 2,318,192 May 04, 1943
Federbush et al. 2,801,115 Jul. 30, 1957
(Federbush)
Bachrach et al. 5,030,027 Jul. 09, 1991
(Bachrach)
Acker 5,069,568 Dec. 03, 1991
The following rejections are before us for review:
Claims 1, 8, 11 through 13, 18, 22 and 23 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Bachrach in view of Federbush;
Claims 2 through 7, 14 through 17, 20 and 21 stand
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