Appeal No. 2005-1435
Application No. 09/906,564
resin to construct a decorative article. In other words,
discharging, collecting and allowing cooling and solidifying of a
puddled mass of purged resin to form randomly shaped masses of
clear and tinted plastic waste are admittedly known.
Thus, with respect to claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 through 12,
the dispositive question is whether one of ordinary skill in the
art would have been led to employ the randomly shaped masses of
plastic as decorative articles, i.e., “preparation” and “selling”
of the randomly shaped masses of clear and tinted plastic as
decorative articles. On this record, we answer this question in
the affirmative.
As correctly found by the examiner (Answer, page 4),
Lanyon teaches mounting irregular body shapes, especially
lustrous irregular body shapes, on rectangular bases (fitting
them into holes of the rectangular bases) to make aesthetic
paper-weights. See also Lanyon in its entirety. These lustrous
irregular body shapes taught in Lanyon encompass the randomly
shaped masses of clear and tinted plastic produced in an
admittedly known purging process. Since these desired lustrous
irregular body shapes (plastic waste) useful for paperweights are
known to be readily and economically available, we concur with
the examiner that one of ordinary skill in the art would have
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