Appeal No. 1998-2240 Page 8
Application No. 08/443,058
usage on the part of young users” (column 1, lines 30-33). In
furtherance of this aim, Wigal utilizes hard setting adhesives
such as epoxy resin to attach together the sections of the
globe (column 3, lines 10-14), and teaches that the covering
sheet is provided with “a pressure sensitive adhesive coating”
(column 3, line 28) and is “secured” to the globe (column 4, 3
lines 21, 22-32 and 49). Nowhere does Wigal explicitly teach
that the sheet can be removed from the globe, nor in our
opinion is this implicit in the disclosure. In this regard,
Wigal does not recognize the problem to which the appellant
has directed his inventive energies, namely, providing a
system wherein the covering sheet can easily be removed and
exchanged for another. In sum, there would seem to be no
reason for Wigal’s covering sheet to be removable.
Neither the examiner’s presentation of the rejection nor
our own analysis of the reference lead us to the conclusion
that one of ordinary skill in the art would have been taught
by Wigal that the covering sheet disclosed therein is “readily
3The common definition of “to secure” is “to make fast.”
Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, 1996,
page 972.
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