Ex parte HERST et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 96-3201                                                          
          Application 08/177,399                                                      

          objected to.  These are the only claims remaining in the                    
          application.                                                                


               The claimed invention is directed to a lighting system                 
          for use with a modular furniture system.  Modular furniture                 
          systems often are built around various components such as                   
          desktop surfaces, floor surfaces, partition walls, shelves and              
          binder bins.  The purpose of the invention is to provide                    
          changeable fixture heads that can be mounted on a plurality of              
          different height mounting structures.  These mounting                       
          structures are then attached to the various surfaces of the                 
          modular furniture.  When the correct mounting structures are                
          used, all the mountable fixtures heads will lie in the same                 
          ambient lighting mounting plane.                                            
               Reference is made to claim 1, reproduced below, which is               
          further illustrative of appellants’ claimed subject matter.                 
               1.  A configurable furniture integrated ambient lighting               
          system for a furniture system having different height support               
          surfaces associated therewith, said lighting system comprising              
               a plurality of mountable fixture heads for indirect                    
          lighting, and                                                               
               a plurality of different positionable mounting structures              
          for mounting said plurality of fixture heads from the                       
          different support surfaces associated with said furniture                   
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