Ex parte MCCOY et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 2000-1813                                       Page 2           
          Application No. 08/954,156                                                  


                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               The appellants' invention relates to a business form                   
          (claims 1 to 12) and a mailer type business form (claims 13 to              
          20).  A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the                 
          appendix to the appellants' brief (Paper No. 8, filed August                
          5, 1999).                                                                   


               The prior art references of record relied upon by the                  
          examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:                              
          Whiteside                     5,376,048                     Dec.            
          27, 1994                                                                    
          Greenway            GB 430,801                         June 25,             
          1935                                                                        



               Claims 1 to 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as                 
          being unpatentable over Whiteside in view of Greenway.                      


               Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced              
          by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted                
          rejection, we make reference to the third Office action (Paper              
          No. 9, mailed October 13, 1999) and the answer (Paper No. 11,               








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