Ex parte HERMANN - Page 13




          Appeal No. 1998-0668                                                        
          Application 08/036,650                                                      

          and because the Examiner has failed to cite any other                       
          evidence of obviousness, the Examiner fails to establish a                  
          prima facie case of obviousness.  The rejection of claims                   
          21-36 is reversed.                                                          
               Phillips                                                               
               Phillips discloses a kit for producing colored art                     
          work.  The kit includes a color atlas of color reference                    
          tints (figure 5) where the color fields are identified by                   
          the colors (columns) and by the combination of percentage                   
          screens (rows) of colors printed on top of each other under                 
          specified printing conditions.  The fields are printed with                 
          "specified volumes" of printing inks as recited in claim 20                 
          and the "specified printing conditions using grid screen                    
          printing stencils having a specified grid percentage" as                    
          recited in claim 21, which are also indicated by the                        
          percentage screens and column numbers on the chart.  It is                  
          noted that claims 20 and 21 only require that the color                     
          fields have "specified volumes" of printing inks and "inks                  
          printed one on top of the other under specified printing                    
          conditions using grid screen printing stencils having a                     



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