Appeal No. 2007-1703 Page 4
Application No. 09/729,261
4. Appellant submits that Lasch does not embed the ink in the card but applies
infrared ink to the card by printing or coating, or, in the alternative, mixing infrared
compounds in a film to be laminated or adhered to the card instead. (Br. 7).
5. The Examiner responds as follows:
Examiner’s position is that Lasch discloses not only printing and
coating as Appellant acknowledges, but also embedding the infrared ink to
the body of the transaction card. In Lasch (col. 8, lines 1-8), the prepared
films or materials can be mixed with a binder to form infrared compound –
suggesting that film is not the only embodiment disclosed in Lasch. The
embodiments of the material containing infrared compound are film, plastic,
fiber, ink, concentrate, thermoplastic or thermoset matrix, thread, planchette
and/or other medium (col. 7, lines 3-7). The binder material, then is
incorporated in waxes, thermoplastic resins, thermoset resins, rubbers,
natural resins or synthetic resins (col. 8, lines 1-8).
Moreover, in Lasch, Example 1 and 2 disclose infrared film
lamination (col. 9, lines 34-55). As shown in figures 7A-7F, PVCs (shaded
rectangle) make up the core of the transaction card. Another embodiment,
however, is disclosed in Example 3 where that infrared concentrate is
blended with polyvinylchloride (PVC) plastic (col. 9, lines 57-67). The
embodiment shown in Example 3 discloses that the infrared filter material is,
in fact, embedded in the card core. A plurality of layers in figures 7A-7F
including two most outer layers in figure 7A can be interpreted as front
overlaminant and the back overlaminant which can be attached to the card
core via lamination.
(Answer 5).
6. We find, in agreement with the Examiner, that Lasch describes blending
filtering material with plastic and extruding the blend into sheets from which
transaction cards are fabricated (see Example 3).
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