Appeal No. 2002-0267 Page 2
Application No. 09/440,496
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a coin display. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 64, which has been
reproduced below.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Ball 2,860,774 Nov. 18, 1958
Di Egidio 4,552,357 Nov. 12, 1985
“States Of The Union Penny Treasury,” circa 19762 (Penny Map)
Claims 64-89 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
over Penny Map in view of Di Egidio and Ball.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the Answer
(Paper No. 19) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections, and
to the Brief (Paper No. 18) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 20) for the appellants’ arguments
thereagainst.
2This reference was submitted by the appellants by way of a supplementary information
disclosure statement (Paper No. 8). According to the appellants, it was provided by patent counsel to a
third party, who provided a synopsis of its contents and stated that it was first sold in the United States in
1976. The appellants have stated in Paper No. 8 that they were willing “to accept it as accurate.”
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