Appeal No. 1997-3266
Application 08/374,960
indicia (answer, page 3). Regarding appellants’ heat
activated transfer, the examiner argues that column 2, lines
9-39 of Borresen disclose a thermoset layer placed onto a
cloth substrate (answer, pages 3 and 6). This portion of the
reference discloses, as examples of suitable substrate
materials, textiles, thermoplastic materials, thermosetting
materials, and lacquered aluminum sheets, and teaches that
“[e]ven the objects to be decorated may be made of the above-
mentioned plastics materials or may be provided with coatings
of such materials, e.g., by lacquering” (col. 2, lines 24-26).
This quoted portion, the examiner argues, is a teaching that
the substrate can be a textile coated with a thermosetting
material (answer, page 3). The examiner, however, does not
explain why the reference reasonably would have led one of
ordinary skill in the art to this particular combination.
Even if Borresen is considered to have suggested, as a
substrate, a textile coated with a thermoset material, the
reference does not disclose a heat activatable adhesive
between the thermoset material and the textile. For a
suggestion of this claim requirement the examiner relies upon
Yamane (answer, page 4). Yamane discloses forming a laminate
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