Appeal No. 2001-0271 Page 9
Application No. 08/855,474
the art at the time of appellant's invention even without the
additional teachings of Zielinski. Accordingly, we shall
sustain the examiner's rejection of representative claim 12,
as well as claims 1-9, 13 and 14 which fall therewith, under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
As appellant has not separately argued the patentability
of claims 10 and 11 apart from claims 1-9 and 12-14, we shall
sustain the examiner's rejection of these claims as being
unpatentable over House in view of Zielinski and Murphy as
well.
Turning next to the examiner's rejection of claim 15 as
being unpatentable over Spector, we note that Spector
discloses an album for a compact disc constituted by a
rectangular cover panel 15 which is hinged to a rectangular
cover panel 16. These panels may be formed from a single
blank of cardboard or other flexible material, which is
transversely scored to form parallel fold lines 17 creating a
hinge which forms the spine of the album. Laminated to the
inner surface of the rear cover panel 16 is a face panel 18 of
the same dimensions as the rear cover panel and formed of the
same or similar material. The thickness of the face panel 18
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