Appeal No. 97-2712
Application 08/285,349
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 14, 16, 17, and 19 through 24. These claims constitute
all of the claims remaining in the application.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a container, a
plastic injection-molded bucket, and to a method of storage of
materials. An understanding of the invention can be derived from
a reading of exemplary claims 1, 9, and 24, copies of which
appear in the APPENDIX to appellants’ brief (pages 15 through 18
of Paper No. 16).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied
the documents listed below:
Chadwick 1,436,754 Nov. 28, 1922
Koefelda et al. (Koefelda) 5,292,024 Mar. 8, 1994
French Patent Application 73.27848 Mar. 8, 1974
(French Patent)2
2Our understanding of this document is derived from a
reading of a translation thereof prepared in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the translation is
appended to this opinion.
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