Appeal No. 2006-1643 Παγε 21
Application No. 09/845,589
From our review of claim 18, the claim requires printing the
visual information and instructions to facilitate a user cutting
out the images and fixing them to the scrapbook page. From the
disclosure of FJCP of the greeting card including the greeting
(printed matter) and the photograph, we find that FJCP teaches or
suggests printing out the photograph along with the printed
matter on the same substrate. As to the printing of the
instructions to facilitate the user in making the scrapbook page,
we find that the instructions are non-functional descriptive
material that do not produce a new and unobvious relationship
between the descriptive material and the substrate. The
rejection of claim 18 is sustained for the same reasons as we
sustained the rejections of claims 1 and 15.
We turn next to claim 23. Appellants rely upon the
arguments presented for the reversal of the rejection of claim 1.
Appellants additionally argue (brief, page 13) that FJCP and
Monn say nothing about a user providing the images and say
nothing about modifying a provided image. The examiner’s
position (answer, page 6) is that claim 23 is rejected for the
same reasons as claim 1.
Claim 23 requires that at least one portion of a digital
image is provided by the user and that the image is modified to
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