Appeal No. 2001-1301
Application 08/867,949
THE REJECTION
Claims 39, 40, 43 and 46 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Easyboard.
Attention is directed to the appellant’s main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 20 and 22) and to the examiner’s answer (Paper
No. 21) for the respective positions of the appellant and the
examiner regarding this rejection.2
DISCUSSION
The description sheets characterize the Easyboard product as
comprising “[a] clear, matte, no glare film attached on all four
sides by Velcro to a rigid, lightweight, white core board for
presentations, posters, exhibits, charts, blueprints, maps or
signage.” The film and board are rectangular in shape, and the
film, which can be written on with an erasable marker, has an
opaque printed border simulating a picture frame. The VELCROŽ
elements comprise four strips of hook-type fasteners extending
along the rectangular periphery of the core board and four mating
strips of loop-type fasteners extending along the rectangular
are prior art relative to the claimed invention.
2 As noted by the examiner on page 2 in the answer, the term
“said frame means” in claim 40 lacks a proper antecedent basis
and should be changed to --said cover-- in the event of further
prosecution.
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