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,Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007