Appeal No. 2004-2014
Application 09/874,672
we affirm the examiner’s rejection. Our reasons for this
determination follow.
Pampas teaches a frozen “Snap to Bake” cookie dough made of,
inter alia, flour, sugar, vanilla flavor and baking powder in the
form of a block. Pampas also illustrates a generally rectangular
block “Snap to Bake” dough having a thickness and a surface
imprinted with intersecting lines (these lines are continuous,
rather than discontinuous lines (notches or score lines)).
According to Pampas, pieces of dough to be baked are snapped from
the block (along the lines) before they are baked to produce
cookies.
As acknowledged by the examiner (Answer, page 4), Pampas
does not disclose score lines (notches) having the dimensions
required by claims 1 and 2. However, from our perspective, one
of ordinary skill in the art would have reasonably expected that
appropriate imprints, such as score lines (notches), having
appropriate dimensions would have provided the same function as
the continuous lines taught in Pampas since they are structurally
similar. As such, we determine that Pampas would have suggested
the use of other imprints, such as the score lines having optimum
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