Appeal No. 2001-0651
Application 08/134,187
one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellants’
invention to provide the method of making the medal seen in
Figures 1 through 3 of Copley with an added step of filling each
cavity (aa) with a liquid protective coating material and then
hardening that material to define a protective coating over the
imprinted disk which would prevent scratching of the imprinted
disk as taught or suggested in Bradshaw.
Contrary to appellants’ assertions, we do not consider that
the examiner has relied upon impermissible hindsight in choosing
to include the protective coating taught in Bradshaw in the
medallion of Copley to afford the pictures in the recesses or
cavities (aa) therein a level of protection not provided by
Copley. Instead, we consider that the examiner was merely
following the teachings of Bradshaw which would have been readily
apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of
appellants’ invention regarding protection of a sheet bearing
pictures, ornamentation or a design as part of an article such as
a wall ornament or plaque, wherein the sheet bearing pictures,
ornamentation or a design is placed in a recess or cavity in an
article of manufacture and then covered with a protective plastic
coating that sealingly overlies the sheet and thus protects it
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