Appeal No. 2000-0206 Page 5
Application No. 08/699,328
Lectric Lites to a post as taught by Like to provide a means to
display the traffic sign.
The appellant has not contested the obviousness
determination made by the examiner. The appellant has challenged
the correctness of the examiner's ascertainment as to the
differences between the Lectric Lites and the independent claims
on appeal (i.e., claims 15 and 16). In that regard, the
appellant argues (brief, pp. 3-4; supplemental brief, pp. 2-3)
that an additional difference is the limitation that the
secondary traffic symbol provides secondary traffic information
unrelated to the first traffic symbol and to the first traffic
information provided by the first traffic symbol. We agree. In
our view, the two symbols on the Lectric Lites' traffic sign
(i.e., the octagon symbol and the arrow) are clearly related
since the two symbols when taken together inform a driver that
the driver is approaching a stop sign up ahead. In fact, a
warning sign designated W17 in the 1990 Uniform Sign Chart of the
California Department of Transportation1 (which is nearly
1 A copy of the warnings signs and regulatory signs
contained in the 1990 Uniform Sign Chart of the California
Department of Transportation is attached hereto.
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