Appeal No. 2000-0873
Application No. 08/975,983
usually including a visualization of the entire painting drawn
to scale in full color” (pages 331-332), and that the scale
drawing is then enlarged and the image transferred to the wall
(page 332).
The Milne reference is directed to a picture painting
kit, and in particular to a picture painting kit that allows
an untrained person in the production of fully-colored
paintings a degree of artistic license by providing that the
user mix paints to achieve another desired color. Milne’s kit
includes a fully saturated color reproduction 27 of a scene to
be painted by the user, an unsaturated color reproduction 31
of the same scene, a plurality of paint tubes 36, and
instructions 37 “which describe the manner of mixing colours
and the method of applying such colours to the reproduction
31” (column 3, lines 23-25).
Based on these prior art teachings, we consider that it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at
the time of appellant’s invention to adopt the picture
painting kit of Milne to allow an untrained person to
reproduce a scene as a large-scale wall mural in order to
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