Appeal No. 1997-3868 Page 7
Application No. 08/538,838
ordinary skill in the art would have been led to modify the
particular process of Watkin based on the disparate teachings
of those secondary references.
Concerning those secondary references, we note that
Bennett refers to "ever-tacky gummed sheets or strips" (column
1, line 9) that may be used with such items as a sign for a
show window (column 2 , lines 30-42). Kasper is concerned
with adhesive coated members including a base paper (see, e.g.
column 1, lines 6-10 and column 2, lines 52-62) that may be
subsequently assembled with a base member, such as "signs,
labels, tags, credit, business or membership cards, etc."
(column 2, lines 6-10). The admitted prior art
(specification, page 9, lines 14-16 and 19-22) concerns a
commercially available pressure sensitive sandwiched adhesive.
Here, the examiner has not established that one of ordinary
skill in the art would have been motivated from those
disparate references in combination with Watkin to somehow
modify the process of Watkin to arrive at the claimed subject
matter as set forth in either of the separately rejected
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