Appeal No. 2001-1301
Application 08/867,949
examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection because the claim
indefiniteness prevented a reasoned evaluation thereof. The
appellant has since amended the claims to overcome the § 112
rejections and the examiner has reinstated the § 103(a) rejection
which is now before us for review.
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to “a display holder for holding and
displaying sheets of paper or similar material” (specification,
page 1). Representative claim 39 reads as follows:
39. A unitary display frame for displaying a document on a
fabric covered surface comprising:
a cover having a front side, a rear side, a transparent
central portion, and an opaque peripheral portion; and
attachment means secured to said rear side of said opaque
peripheral portion of said cover for selectively engaging the
fabric of the fabric covered surface and supporting the document
in a defined retention area, between said cover and the fabric of
the fabric covered surface, for limiting relative movement
between the document and said cover.
THE PRIOR ART
The prior art relied on by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness consists of:
The “Easyboard Presentation Holder” product and
description sheets made of record by the appellant in
an information disclosure statement filed August 22,
1997, Paper No. 2 (Easyboard).1
1 Although the “Easyboard Presentation Holder” materials do
not bear a distribution or publication date, the appellant
acknowledges in the information disclosure statement that they
2
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