Appeal No. 95-0575
Application No. 07/921,645
wherein a counter-weight is utilized to allow for easy raising
and lowering [of] the height of the basketball backboard”
(specification, page 2). Claims 1, 14, 20 and 24, the four
independent claims on appeal, are illustrative. Copies of these
claims as submitted with the appellant’s main brief (Paper No.
10) are appended hereto.
The prior art items relied upon by the examiner as evidence
of obviousness are:
Cardarelli 452,211 May 12, 1891
Bottorff 3,341,197 Sep. 12, 1967
Sinner 3,722,886 Mar. 27, 1973
Bearson et al. (Bearson) 3,765,676 Oct. 16, 1973
Wilson et al. (Wilson) 4,145,044 Mar. 20, 1979
Haston et al. (Haston) 4,526,367 July 2, 1985
Barisa 4,702,450 Oct. 27, 1987
Grable 4,759,545 Jul. 26, 1988
Nye 4,781,375 Nov. 1, 1988
Friesen 4,801,142 Jan. 31, 1989
Lykens 4,941,661 July 17, 1990
Exhibit A - three photographs of an adjustable basketball
backboard system which is alleged by the examiner “to have been
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