Appeal No. 1997-0853
Application No. 08/308,076
describes a “voucher sheet” having blank areas which “the user
can freely fill in”), Kobayashi contains no disclosure of a
“business form” which includes a second transparent water-
impermeable plastic sheet to protect a first paper sheet when
the second sheet is applied thereto as required by appealed
claim 1. Nor does Kobayashi describe or suggest a “business
form” having a first unsegmented paper sheet associated with a
second paper sheet having substantially the same size and
shape as the first sheet and including a “plurality of lines
of weakness separating said second sheet into a plurality of
individual labels” as required by appealed claim 8.
Accordingly, the examiner’s obviousness rejection based on
Kobayashi is not sustained.
THE OBVIOUSNESS REJECTION BASED ON VERMEULEN AND KOBAYASHI
Appealed claims 14-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as unpatentable over the combined teachings of Vermeulen
and Kobayashi. We do not sustain this rejection. Again, the
examiner has failed to articulate precisely how the
disclosures in these references may be combined to arrive at
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