Appeal No. 2006-0699
Application No. 90/005,937
1 by an electrical current; they are excited by visible light
2 (Intrad, page 1, “Technical Note” in the last two columns).
3 The Intrad elongate photoluminescent strips are in the form
4 of flat tapes. (Page 5, “Standard Products,” “Tapes,” and
5 accompanying illustration).
6 Gagne describes a preferably clear and strong (column 4,
7 lines 45-46) protective top cover 70 (column 5, line 28) over an
8 electroluminescent material 90 (column 5, line 4) contained in a
9 receptacle 50 having a recess 65 (column 5, lines 1-3) fitting
10 into an outer track 30 (column 1, lines 12-15).
11 Gagne describes the protective top cover as having a lens 74
12 separating sidewalls 71 and 72 (column 4, lines 38-39 and 44)
13 which depend into channels 63 of the receptacle (column 4, lines
14 54-57). The protective top cover is releasably engaged by
15 interfering barriers with the receptacle, which is in turn
16 releasably engaged into the outer track. (column 5, lines 16-29).
17 Stripped of excess language, the Gagne inner receptacle
18 clicks into place in the fixed track, and the receptacle is capped
19 of by a clear lid which has sidewalls that click down into place
20 in the inner receptacle, protecting the source of illumination and
21 through the cooperating members retaining the receptacle and
22 lighting element in place (column 2, lines 18-59).
23 The Appellant’s principal argument is that the side portions
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