Appeal No. 1998-2673
Application 08/557,138
the depressed surface including an opening formed in the
carrier member. Claim 19 also requires “an at least
partially- transparent cover foil mounted on said depressed
surface and covering said opening.” According to the
examiner, Lee teaches a document that meets these claimed
limitations (final Office action, page 3). Other than
providing a cryptic note in the advisory action that “British
document 1604463 [Lee] teaches a depressed surface with a foil
component at Fig. 4", the examiner makes no specific reference
to any portion of Lee being relied upon to support this
position.
Our review of Lee (giving particular attention to Figure
4) reveals that Lee’s document comprises a carrier member 1
with a marking element 4 in the form of a wavy strip 5
(security element) embedded within it (Lee, page 1, lines 73-
85; page 3, lines 55-77). This marking element 4 only becomes
visible when apertures (e.g., 7 in Figure 4) are made (as by
controlled cutting, abrading or burning) in the surface of the
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