Appeal No. 2004-0269 Page 2
Application No. 09/589,866
BACKGROUND
The appellant’s invention relates to a collection of portable key ring tags each
bearing a vocabulary word on one side thereof and the definition of the vocabulary word
on the other side thereof for use in combination with a key ring having at least one key
retained thereon. A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the
appellant’s brief.
The examiner relied upon the following prior art references in rejecting the
appealed claims:
Peckham 335,837 Feb. 9, 1886
Luciano 6,101,367 Aug. 8, 2000
The following is the sole rejection before us for review.
Claims 1, 4, 5 and 7-17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Peckham in view of Luciano.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the final
rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 5 and 8) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection and to the brief and reply brief (Paper Nos. 7 and 9) for the
appellant’s arguments thereagainst.
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