Appeal No. 1998-0045
Application 08/699,135
The references of record relied upon by the examiner
as evidence of obviousness are:
Plante 1,922,900 Aug. 15,
1933
Transport 4,319,418 Mar. 16,
1982
Sy, Jr. 5,131,177 July 21,
1992
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1 through 8 and 12 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Transport in view of Sy, Jr.
The examiner states that Transport teaches a folded paper
greeting card with a collapsible ornament affixed therein by
staple 129. The examiner acknowledges that Transport does not
teach an affixing means which partly projects from an aperture
in the card. The examiner has cited Sy, Jr. for the teaching
of affixing a suction cup to a card via an aperture in the
card. The examiner concludes that it would have been obvious
to utilize the affixing means of Sy, Jr. in the card of
Transport to provide a means for affixing the ornament to a
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