Appeal No. 1997-3801
Application 08/397,960
appellant that the aforementioned rejections are not well
founded. Accordingly, we reverse these rejections.
Warther discloses a process for making a laminated
plastic card which can have a thermo-mechanically sensitive
substrate having graphic subject matter printed thereon (col.2
8, lines 37-39). Warther teaches that the printer used to
form the graphic subject matter is programmable (col. 8, line
60; col. 9, line 37), which indicates that the process can
include the use of a set of digital instructions which defines
the graphic subject matter. Use of a laser printer for
forming the graphic subject matter is disclosed (col. 8, lines
43 and 67). After the graphic subject matter has been formed
on the substrate, a coating film is applied to each side of
the substrate, preferably by adhesive bonding (col. 5, lines
14-35; col. 8, lines 6-20).
Warther does not disclose the use of only partial setting
of the graphic subject matter by radiant heat. The examiner
relies upon Ohta for a teaching of fusing and fixing a toner
2 The substrate can be Teslin , which is one of the thermo- ®
mechanically sensitive materials used by appellant
(specification, page 10).
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