Appeal No. 96-3520
Application 08/260,563
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
refusal to allow claims 1 through 7, 9 and 10 as amended
subsequent to the final rejection in a paper filed April 27, 1995
(Paper No. 7). Claims 11 through 17, the only other claims2
remaining in the application, stand withdrawn from further
consideration under 37 CFR § 1.142(b) as not being directed to
the elected invention. Claim 8 has been canceled.
Appellants' invention relates to a steel drum for
transporting materials. As noted on page 2 of the specification,
it is an object of the invention to provide a 55 gallon steel
drum which will fit four abreast in an ISO shipping container
with minimum bracing in the ISO container. Independent claim 1
is representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
that claim, as it appears in the Appendix to appellants' brief,
is attached to this decision.
2Notwithstanding remand of this application to the exami-
ner for, inter alia, entry of the amendment filed April 27, 1995
(see Paper No. 15), we note that the changes requested in
claims 1 and 2 of the application in that amendment have still
not been clerically entered.
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