Appeal No. 1998-0889
Application 08/006,585
on a card. We do not rely on Appellant's statement that the printing
device may take a variety of forms because it does not appear to be
an admission as to prior art in the card printing art. The rejection
of claim 5 is sustained.
With respect to claims 9-11, neither Hakamatsuka nor Otsuka
disclose printing on a card having "pre-embossed alphanumeric
characters." While we agree with the Examiner that embossing on
cards is well known, this does not address the claimed invention of
printing on a card that contains embossed characters. Thus, the
Examiner has failed to make a prima facie case with respect to claims
9-11. The rejection of claims 9-11 is reversed.
Claim 16, 17, and 18 are directed to the prepared writing
surface. As to claim 17, the Examiner finds that Hakamatsuka teaches
a writing surface comprising paper at column 10, lines 37-38.
Appellant argues that this disclosure relates to material used in
sublimation printing, not paper to be used for a prepared writing
surface (Br25). The paper base material 22a does not receive the
actual printing and, so, is not a prepared writing surface. Thus,
the rejection of claim 17 is reversed.
As to claims 16 and 18, the Examiner applies Cannistra, which
the Examiner finds to disclose a writing surface comprising foil
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