Appeal No. 2004-0404
Application No. 08/992,878
(a) a folded sheet having a front face including an
aperture, a back face, a bottom edge, a top edge, a first side
edge and a second side edge extending opposite each other from
said top edge to said bottom edge, said aperture being closer to
said bottom edge than to said top edge; said aperture being
spaced between about ½ cm and about 2 cm from said bottom edge,
and at least ½ cm from each of said first side edge and said
second side edge, the aperture and the envelope each having a
width, the width of the aperture being about 80% of the width of
the envelope; and
b) a transparent sheet attached to said front face covering
said aperture.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Lewis 1,799,428 Apr. 7, 1931
Tullar 1,962,921 Jun. 12, 1934
Buttery 3,835,988 Sep. 17, 1974
Warfield 5,611,426 Mar. 18, 1997
Fothergill 2,260,531 Apr. 21, 1993
(British Patent Document)
THE REJECTION
Claims 1, 3, 6, 8 and 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Fothergill in view of Tullar,
Lewis and either Buttery or Warfield.
Attention is directed to the main, supplemental and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 23, 26 and 28) and to the answer (Paper No.
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