Appeal No. 2000-0487 Page 5
Application No. 08/856,228
USPQ 560, 562 (CCPA 1972). Furthermore, the conclusion that
the claimed subject matter is prima facie obvious must be
supported by evidence, as shown by some objective teaching in
the prior art or by knowledge generally available to one of
ordinary skill in the art that would have led that individual
to arrive at the claimed invention. See In re Fine, 837 F.2d
1071, 1074, 5 USPQ2d 1596, 1598 (Fed. Cir. 1988).
Independent claim 20 reads as follows:
A display carton for holding at least one article,
said display carton being formed by a foldable blank,
comprising:
a plurality of panels forming a hollow interior of
said carton upon erection of said blank to receive said
article; and
at least one panel forming a face of the carton
having a cutout opening allowing for the partial visual
and tactile inspection of said article, said cutout
opening being surrounded by a printed silhouette of said
article on said face;
the combined visual appearance of the article
through said opening and said silhouette providing a
substantially full visualization of the article;
whereby said article may be inspected and fully
visualized by simulation without opening said carton.
We have reviewed the applied prior art cited by the
examiner in the rejection of the claims 7 to 9, 11, 12 and 20
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