Appeal No. 2004-0089 3 Application No. 09/949,327 As an initial matter, it is the appellant’s position that, “all the claims stand or fall together.” See Brief, page 2. Accordingly, we select claim 1 as representative of the claimed subject matter and limit our consideration thereto. See 37 CFR1.192(c)(7)(2003). The Rejection under Section 103 The examiner proposes two alternative positions in the rejection of record. In the first position, the only distinction between the primary reference to Luftig is in the term “greeting.” See Answer, page 4. In an alternative position, the examiner considers it obvious to the person having ordinary skill in the art to substitute a greeting card in place of the accordion style letter of Luftig. Id. We sustain both positions. Luftig is directed to an apparatus directed to a combination of a latter and an envelope. See column 1, lines 4-8. We find that the combination contains addressee information and a control number affixed to a letter. See column 1, lines 49-52. We find that the envelope and letter combination are so constructed that an attention getting design border is contiguous to the control number enclosed within the envelope. See column 1, lines 55-61. We find that the envelope includes first and second windows. See column 1, line 67 to column 2, line 1. We find a letter is provided with one area for addressee information and a second area containing at least one number and a border area proximate to the number. See column 2, lines 1-7. Two windows are present in the letter as exemplified by numerals 28 for the first window and 30 for the second window. ThePage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007