Appeal No. 2006-1451
Application No. 08/802,472
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a method for making a thematic package and
marketing it with an enclosed article visually suggested by the package. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 5,
which is reproduced below.
5. A method for making a combination of a thematic package and an
article contained in the package for combined marketing, the method including
the steps of:
constructing the package as a replica of a recognizable icon, the package
having a shape that is different than any shape to be contained therein,
the shape of the package visually suggestive of an activity associated with
the icon in which the article is used during the activity, after removal from the
package,
the package having a hollow interior;
locating the article within the hollow interior of the package to form the
combination of the article and the thematically-shaped package; and
marketing the combination.
PRIOR ART
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Gossard 3,624,939 December 7, 1971
Schaffer et al. (Schaffer) D196,679 October 22, 1963
Francis D346,185 April, 19, 1994
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