Appeal No. 1999-0899
Application No. 08/654,752
is to be molded is held in place in mold 1 by a barrier plate
7 of "strip metal-like magnets" (page 7, lines 8 to 11), the
decorating material 11 having iron powder (page 6, lines 17
to 20) at its edge to enable the magnetic barrier plate 7 to
hold
it in place. It appears that the barrier plate 7 encircles
the area of the mold in which the decorating material 11 is
located, and when the mold is closed, the barrier plate forms
a dent 23 at the edge of the decorating material 11, as well
as in material 22 (Fig. 2 and page 7, lines 16 to 24).
Given the disclosure of Idetsuki as outlined above, we do
not consider that one of ordinary skill would find therein any
teaching or suggestion to form a perforation in the bracket 46
of Strapazzini in the manner recited in claim 13. While
Idetsuki does disclose a protrusion 7 on one of the molds 1,
the protrusion does not form a perforation in the material
being molded, but only dents it. Thus, one of ordinary skill
would not, in our view, derive from Idetsuki any teaching of
forming
a perforation in the material being molded.
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