Appeal No. 97-0750
Application 08/329,219
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
refusal to allow claims 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8 as amended in a paper
filed concurrently with appellant's appeal brief on July 17,
1996. Claims 3, 4 and 5, the only other claims pending in this2
application, have been objected to by the examiner, and are said
to be allowable if rewritten in independent form to include all
of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Appellant's invention relates to a self-adjusting lift
table for supporting a number of load items at a variable height.
On pages 1 and 2 of the specification, appellant indicates that
the present invention is an improvement over the lift table seen
in U.S. Patent No. 5,299,906 and, in particular, provides a lift
table of the type described therein in which the load deflection
characteristic is improved, and is easily matched to various load
2Although it is clear from page 2 of the examiner's answer
that the amendment filed with the appeal brief on July 17, 1996
has been considered and entered by the examiner, we note that
this amendment has not been entered in the "Contents" section of
the file wrapper, has not been assigned a paper number, or
otherwise clerically entered. These oversights should be
corrected in any further prosecution of the application before
the examiner.
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